Word: pendulum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue that seems to concern Nixon most, Powell is outspokenly conservative. "There are valid reasons for criminals to think that crime does pay, and that slow and fumbling justice can be evaded," he said a few years ago, inferentially blaming this on some decisions of the Warren court. "The pendulum may have swung too far in favor of affording rights which are abused by criminals." The President echoed those lines in his TV remarks...
...crime investigations: "My colleagues and I remember when a villain got a whacking sentence and was sent to Dartmoor. There he got flogged, he broke stones and he sewed mailbags. After he was released he seldom came back for more. Prison then was a real deterrent. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. They have got television in prisons now and transistor radios in cells. There is a choice of grub and they get weekend leave to allow them to go home and breed more criminals." Unless "firm measures" are taken, the officers argued, the now safe streets...
This is not to say, however, that the art lacks intricacies: consider the names of the steps-taps, triple wings, toe tips, pendulum wings, cramp rolls, heel drops, heel digs, nerve taps, hops, jumps, heel cramps and flash finishes. Even that formidable array, however, has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of housewives who want to lose weight, businessmen who seek exercise and kids who revel in the chance to make shattering amounts of noise without risking a reprimand...
...19th century, Albrecht Ritschl, a leader of liberal theology, totally rejected the deity of Jesus, and Historian Bruno Bauer denied that the human Jesus had ever lived. In Rudolf Bultmann's 20th century view, the "Christ of faith" returned, but the "Jesus of history" was inaccessible. The pendulum is still swinging. Bultmann's disciples have since decided that some of Jesus' actual words and works can indeed be determined through research. Quite a few reputable scholars now believe that the New Testament account is reliable history...
Mather has no artwork, either. Although Carlhain designed some genuinely imaginative art for the House (an enormous clock with a pendulum swinging across...