Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Final Spiral. In Lynd's quick march, the next main engagement that had to be fought by the American radical was to establish "a freedom to act as well as think and speak." History, he believes, provided the appropriate issue in abolitionism, which expanded the private privilege of conscience into the public privilege of civil disobedience. The radicals of 1776 stipulated that "only majorities could renew the social contract," explains Lynd. "Abolitionism was obliged to discard that restriction so as to justify individual disobedience to laws which sanctioned slavery...
Comment on recent court rulings added considerable heat to the debate. Arkansas' John McClellan, his voice hoarse and quaking, asked: "Do you favor a continuation of rulings that push the spiral of crime upward and upward? We had better quit trying to find alibis and excuses as to why the law cannot be enforced and get down to enforcing it." In one remarkable bit of rhetoric, Louisiana's Russell Long explained why American Bar Association lawyers opposed the attempt to curb the court. "They have a vested interest in crime," said Long. "Why should they give...
...approximates both. The plot careens arrogantly through a disequence of scenes, no connections provided: the junkyard; Twelvetrees in a hallway, in a bathroom; Anastasia on a long walk; Twelvetrees making love to Samantha; Blaine in his telephone booth. If we seize on any pattern, it may be a crazy spiral about Anastasia herself, about her diffuse Presence. But "spiral" promises too much. Montage is better, montage through time (close your eyes and picture Dream), fishcakes, a patchwork of dreams, none preparing us for the next, each visually striking in itself, together creating an effect of speed...
...Harvard and Radcliffe students who leave each year to go to mental hospitals, the trip to the other side is more often a slow, sad spiral than a sudden leap. In recent interviews, nine students who have been at McLean Hospital, a large, private, Harvard-staffed institution in Belmont, talked about freaking out--why they went, where they went, and what they found...
...structure of the heredity-determining DNA molecule, a major feat for which he and British Scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins eventually shared a Nobel prize. Now, 15 years later, he has written a highly literate day-by-day account of his experiences (the title is drawn from the spiral-staircase shape of DNA). The book will lead readers to important discoveries of their own: scientific research is not necessarily the calm, orderly process so tritely portrayed in modern legend, and scientists are all too human...