Word: groundedness
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In Boston this week, see State of Siege if you haven't already. Costa-Gavras's factually-grounded film about American interference in Uruguay is not a thriller like his Z but a memorable portrait of dedicated revolutionaries hardened by their struggle against a police regime trained in torture and...
Its fighters and bombers grounded, its guns silenced, and its soldiers withdrawn from battlefields, America last week ceased waging war in Indochina for the first time in nearly a decade. At midnight on Tuesday (Washington, D.C., time) all U.S. combat activity ended. It was one of the great anticlimaxes in...
Bitter Broadside. In the wake of the coup, there were reports that the regime had rounded up hundreds of civilians and military men who were suspected of being royalist partisans. Last week, Papadopoulos sacked his chief of the navy after sitting down to dinner with him the night before. The...
For reasons that may be developed, I have never been impressed by the arguments that the fetus has a potential for human capacities, for rationality and that its rights are therefore grounded on that potential. I think that arguments based on potential cannot convincingly be made to prove only what...
THERE are those who say that law and order are just code words for repression and bigotry. That is dangerous nonsense. Law and order are code words for goodness and decency in America." So spoke President Nixon as he explained his new crime initiatives. It was a purely Nixonian sentiment...