Word: lessons
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...service that both appeals to Americans' democratic instincts and, as one parishioner put it, resembles "sitting around the holy table as in an apostolic age," clergy and even the bishop sit among the people, and laymen rise from their pews in the congregation to read the Old Testament lesson and the Epistle. Even the unvested choir is no longer segregated, but sits with the congregation to prompt them...
...state "Westinghouse pleads guilty." Opposing Brownell in court: U.S. Attorney and Trustbuster Robert Bicks, who in 1953 was brought into antitrust work in Washington by then U.S. Attorney General Brownell. "Bicks," said Judge J. Cullen Ganey, "has done a splendid job." To teach the guilty electrical companies a lesson, Trustbuster Bicks is expected to urge jail terms for some of the conspiring executives when sentence is pronounced next month...
...years ago at the age of 38 to begin writing theatrical works that were generally called obscure too. But like Genet and Beckett, he has expressed his themes less in dialogue than in the structure of his plays, often preoccupied with the frustrating inadequacies of human communication. In The Lesson a teacher who has tried to instruct 39 inept students, murdering each one when the effort failed, murders No. 40 onstage. In The Chairs an aged couple takes leave of the world through a window, leaving behind an Orator appointed to deliver their final message of wisdom for mankind...
Calling on the American people to appeal reasonably to the state department ("after all, those people aren't engaged in some malevolent conspiracy"), Stone concluded by declaring that "in helping Cuba, we can help our own country. Here's the chance to give the world an object lesson in U.S. capabilities...
More and more U.S. doctors are resorting to just such callous measures, as they learn a bitter lesson: medicine is an inexact science, but there is little room for error as far as the courts are concerned. One in every seven U.S. physicians, says the American Medical Association, has been sued for giving treatment that a court may decide is contrary to accepted rules and injurious to the patient. Last year alone, 6,000 doctors were sued. Jury awards in malpractice suits have nearly trebled since 1950; lawyers' fees, court costs, damages and out-of-court settlements in last...