Word: outdatedness
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At stake in the debate was the final form of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, a new ethics code which a Bar Association commission had been drafting for the last six years. The need for a new ethical platform has been recognized among Bar members for many years. The...
This is, after all, the University where a dean, in his annual report, once quoted the Chinese Curse of Doom, "May you live in an age of transition." Transition--and open, intellectual debate on even the most time-honored of policies--are signs of health and adaptability, not weakness. Until...
Had the Leverett production interpreted An Enemy of the People lightly, and seasoned the play with a cast of stereotypes, a forceful satirical piece could have been effected. Similarly, a serious interpretation, though ambitious, considering the play's outdated political theories and melodramatic tendencies, could have provided an effective dramatization...
The play, though plagued with various and sundry other difficulties--poor lighting and makeup, intrusive set design, tacky costuming--fails primarily in this interpretive aspect. The Leverett House production, furthermore, provides its own unsolicited deathblow -- in setting the already outdated play in present-day upstate New York. The set, dialogue...
Yet Kennedy's political platform has often seemed more suited to the Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague Tip O'Neill, Kennedy has increasingly been seen as a caricature of the decline of 1960s urban liberalism, a vestigial...