Word: mea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treated by Psychiatrist Alfred Adler. Yet by choice and necessity, he remained a soul apart. He lived a frugal, ascetic life with his wife and four chil dren, eking out his income by teaching, by doing hack jobs for his music pub lisher and by conducting. He had a mea sure of success on the podium despite his distaste for the hubbub of the per forming life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from his players, especially in the pianissimo range; musicians joked that he had invented the pensato, a note so subtle that the per former only thought...
Congress took one pratfall last week for which it had only itself to blame. At issue was a 7% pay hike that would in crease Congressmen's salaries to $61,525 a year. The House first passed the mea sure, 156 to 64, using a parliamentary procedure that kept individual members' votes from being recorded, thus preventing constituents back home from learning which Congressmen supported the raise and which ones opposed it Later, pay-raise opponents forced a roll call, which required that a record be made of how each member voted. Asked Republican Representative Gerald Solomon...
...which reduces him to a childlike condition as he plaintively cries out for "Daddy." This particular sequence is inserted to illustrate what the Arican's call the "relations instinct of man," an instinct which corresponds to the individual's relationship with the father. Hanser makes generous use of similar mea culpa stories to demonstrate the impact of the 40-day Arica session on the trainees and this footage includes all the high points of the documentary...
...initial works of most gifted writers, Pinero's script has the mark of a genuine talent that needs polish. Though the morality parable in the film points to a considerable amount of insight and sensitivity, the motifs are at times carried out in a clumsy fashion. Short Eyes's mea culpa about his perverse affinity for young girls is riddled with cliches, and Davison's acting in the title role approaches the pedestrian throughout the narrative, making the character look like just another wimp with a kinky habit...
Johnson, of course, owes a large mea sure of his enduring fame to Boswell...