Word: lying
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hoods, ordered the charges dismissed. The main point of the unanimous decision by the three judges: Since the Government had not tried to prove that the meeting, in and of itself, violated any state or federal law, how could it prove that the defendants had conspired to lie about their presence there? The Government's "bootstrap" handling of the case, wrote Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard, was wholly unwarranted. "Bad as many of these alleged conspirators may be, their conviction for a crime which the Government could not prove . . . and on evidence which a jury could not properly assess...
...ultimately would result in a painful decrease in our national security and well-being) and that another nation would indeed carry out policy 'X' if it could (because it would mean a gain in their security and well-being). I believe that the roots of the East-West conflict lie in exactly such situations--and that there are many of them. Obviously in this case an everly favorable image of the opponent is dangerous. The real problem is to find ways of denying a nation the capacity to harm us, without reserting to the threat of nuclear war. Solutions...
...know, many of the comic scenes were written by Marlowe himself. But, they could be used discriminately so as to bear some relation to the dramatic undercurrent, which is, for whatever else one may add, a theme of sin, torture, and hell, coupled with the secular joys which lie along the path to hell...
...because of the first reason that we didn't publish it. Why should I lie to you? We have to speak honestly to each other or it doesn't pay to talk at all. The book was withheld for political reasons. But please believe me, it was my sincere opinion that this was a bad book. As an editor I can't be condemned to publish what I don't like...
...love with Macheath, she is the epitome of innocence; when she is about to sleep with Macheath for the first time, she runs up the hotel stairs like a kitten chasing a ball of yarn; and when she sings her song about the circumstances under which a girl should "lie down," her face is soft and pale, like a child's. But as soon as she has to take charge of Mack's gang, her clothes and manner become those of the archtypical business woman, and her face appears on the screen in a new and harsher light. She finds...