Word: arnolds
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...glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
Others have even more radical ideas. University of Chicago Sociologist Jerome Skolnick argues that the rigid military model for police is out of date, suggests that civilian clothes with mere badges would bring policemen closer to their fellow citizens. According to Arnold Sagalyn, formerly a top Treasury Department lawman, police should quit being lonely adversaries and help tackle urban problems-thus preventing a good many crimes that now plague police. Berkeley Psychiatrist Bernard Diamond argues that police forces should also stop recruiting primarily tough men who can "shoot it out." As he sees it, the right model is a potential...
HIGH SERIOUSNESS. Matthew Arnold, you remember, said the greatest art displayed a High Seriousness. That's not to exclude the serious masquerading as comic, or even the outright Slapstick farcical comic. It may not be the greatest art, Arnold said, but we-all-love-a-good-joke-hey-boys...
...Matthew Arnold forgot to leave any guidelines for dealing with Warhol say, or Godard, or Frank O'Hara. They are artists of the serious as comic. They display a kind of consciousness in which profound truths, new, original insights are seen as funny, not screamingly funny perhaps, but funny nonetheless. "It's true but it's still a joke," as George Harrison says,"...It's serious and it's not serious...
Compatible Partner. Plessey had reason to be disturbed-if only because its managing director, John Clark, 42, had announced his own intention last month of taking over English Electric. But Clark reckoned without Arnold Weinstock, 44, British G.E.'s acquisitive boss, who made his company the industry leader by winning control of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. in a bitter takeover battle last year. Weinstock heard the news of Clark's designs on English Electric while vacationing at his Wiltshire farm, promptly began his own negotiations with the company...