Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawless, 1950 Joseph Losey-directed tale of bigotry and conflict between whites and Chicanos in a California border town. MacDonald Carey, Gail Russell...
What that unattractive convention wanted was a leader who could deliver them from dread. To eliminate the worry and fear of Asian Communists, lawless protesters, higher taxes, nuclear war, and arrogant welfare parasites is to eliminate thought, and so bring peace. Thus the friendly trips to Peking and Moscow are in perfect congruity with a stepped-up defense program and a perpetual war in Indochina; all serve to keep the hated Communists from attacking or even threatening us at home...
...point is made subtly that Doyle lives in a world of moral chaos, like his room; it is a world without standards, in which the chase and the capture are the only satisfactions. The point is not only made, but celebrated, and we are encouraged to enter Doyle's lawless universe as vicarious hunters and killers...
Collins's appeal is based on the technical grounds that he had received incorrect information from his draft board. But more importantly, there is the issue of the residency requirement of members of the draft board. His lawyers claim in their briefs (citing the "lawless board" doctrine found in the Court's ruling in Oestereich v. Selective Service System Local Board), "There should be one law for the governors and the governed, binding both alike. A draft board not constituted in accordance with the statute and regulations is a "Lawless board" without the power to classify...
...themselves." But in the end that was just what did happen. The Atlanteans "lost their comeliness, through being unable to bear the burden of their possessions, and became ugly to look upon, in the eyes of him [Zeus] who has the gift of sight . . . filled as they were with lawless ambition and power." Therefore Zeus destroyed them. As Professor Marinates continues to unearth evidence from his dig on Santorini, Plato's story of Atlantis begins to read more and more like actual history...