Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THREE STYLES of police behavior developed in the book, the "watchman style" has the most familiar ring. As Wilson notes, most 19th century American policemen did behave like watchmen, ignoring small offenses and maintaining order through their personal authority (often backed with fists) rather than by their arrest power. The watchman-style patrolman judges offenses by the prevailing standards of the immediate community. He might ignore a small theft in a ghetto neighborhood, but investigate the same theft in a prosperous white area. Only in more serious offenses would he crack down, perhaps breaking a few more heads...
...Disciples were organized at the beginning of the 19th century as a backwoods ecumenical venture that sought to do away with denominational differences. The founder was the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania who wanted to unite all men on a few basics of belief. Christianity, he argued, is "essentially and constitutionally one church made up of all those in every place who profess their faith in Jesus Christ...
Officials of the Mexican government have said repeatedly during the week of the "noche triste" that the 19th Olympic Games will be held no matter what steps have to be taken to insure it--including machine-gunning of peaceful demonstrators. The Mexican government is "protecting" the athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games form harm by mowing down potential troublemakers with bullets. This kind of protection should not be accepted or tolerated by athletes there--including the Harvard crew. All athletes at the Games ought to reject the barbarism of the Mexican authorities and refuse to participate in the Games...
...masters of the Kremlin have long been troubled by the challenge of great writers. When Tolstoy spoke out against famine or religious persecution in 19th century Russia, his voice so carried around the world that the czars took heed. In the early years of Communist rule, Maxim Gorky wielded his renown to save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork...
...GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A young widow (Hope Lange) and her two children move into a seacoast cottage haunted by the quarrelsome ghost of a 19th century sea captain (Edward Mul-hare). Premiere...