Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What are prisons for? To reform criminals, replied of the 77% of nation's Americans in "correctional" a recent Harris Poll. But 80% of the nation's " correctional;" employees merely guard 426,000 inmates in a hodgepodge of archaic institutions that range from adequate to appalling. Only 20% of the coun try's correctors work at rehabilitation. And 30% of all released offenders (75% in some areas) are reimprisofied within five years, often for worse crimes...
...depicted in the crimson robes of a Harvard doctor holding the Torah. Next to me stands the bullfighter with drawn sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus the bullfighter has slain a human victim. This is Koerner's way of saying that the bullfight is really a surrogate for a much more primitive sacrifice. The woman in white is both a modern Pittsburgh...
Like a Pharaoh's tomb, the stage is stocked with the relics of a bygone life: a clutter of armoires and grandfather clocks, quaint archaic radios and phonographs, fringed lampshades and a golden harp. A man in a policeman's uniform slowly enters the attic room and sniffs the dust of decades. He walks over to the harp and plucks at a string. It is slack, jangled and flat-an omen of the theatrical evening to come...
...grandfathers "remembered the Maine" and ended an oppressive, archaic colonial empire. Apparently we're going to "negotiate about the Pueblo" and accomplish nothing, except little inconveniences like prison camps and death for 83 Americans who were serving for the rest...
Capital punishment is dying in the U.S. There were only two executions last year, just one the year before. A concerted attack is being waged on grounds that it is cruel and inhuman vengeance, does not work as a deterrent and is otherwise archaic. Suits by the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund have blocked all executions in Florida and California until the question of whether or not the death sentence is still constitutional can be resolved in court...