Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...realism. His is a compassionate realism, which goes beyond categories of hope, dread, and anger, to study the reticulating recesses of self-delusion, the vicissitudes of the self-circling, sensitive, introspective mind. The technique of his drama is to show how complex people emprison their souls through the processes of self-consciousness, enclosing themselves into half-perceived mausoleums of hope and fear. What renders this so complex is that Chekhov displays his people without reference to idea, but only to the organic progress of their personalities in pressure against one another. As we listen to these houses of funereal gloom...
Through his unilateral executive move, the President has placed the country in a state of emergency. He has ignored the constitutional prerogative of Congress and has revealed the sham of his policy of Vietnamization, a policy which through a tortuous process of inner logic, demands that we escalate the war in order to enable American troops to withdraw. He has demonstrated that American foreign policy still dictates the necessity to sacrifice American lives to ravish independent countries and to squander our resources and energies...
...were reports, however, that the President has decided to take a broader position at the talks than was originally recommended by some White House advisers. A major imponderable for U.S. policymakers is the leadership situation in the Soviet Union. If Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev is in fact in the process of consolidating his power, he will probably be inclined to move very slowly in Vienna if only to avoid offending the military men whose support he will need...
...post office was arbitrary and capricious when it fired 23-year-old Clerk Neil Mindel for living with a girl who was not his wife. By failing to prove any connection between his sexual behavior and his postal duties, the court said, his superiors had deprived him of due process of law. The court emphasized that the Government's discretionary powers over its employees are "not unlimited," and added: "The specter of the Government dashing about investigating this non-notorious and not uncommon relationship that was totally divorced from plaintiff's governmental duties is the most disturbing aspect...
...disclose, regardless of their patients' wishes. Moreover, Lifschutz argued, the patient cannot make an informed waiver of his rights-he may not know what his doctors will say about him. Worse still, said Lifschutz, a psychiatrist's testimony might well torment his patient and destroy the treatment process...