Word: bard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong scent of fresh hope emerging from the article on Psychologist Morton Bard's love affair with New York's 30th Police Precinct Family Crisis Intervention Unit [March 23] brought tears to eyes that, accustomed to mirages, overreacted when a real oasis appeared...
...institution like the police department can be changed in substance and image by one man with a vision-a vision that must have appeared incredible, if not ridiculous, to our polarized and fragmented society, what potential for real hope could lie ahead if other institutions would find their Morton Bard...
...another piece, "Romeo and Julie?." Goodby makes up a passage similar to a Shakespearean sonnet and proceeds to give 27 annotated comments on 17 lines of verse. lambasting Shakespeare as well as the Bard's life long devotees. The note on "She [Juliet] speaks, yet she says nothing" is "'This line, more than any other, best exemplifies the Shakespearean style.'-Kittridge...
...Bard's report on the F.C.I.U., written for the Justice Department, will be distributed this month to law-enforcement and community health agencies all over the country. The effect may be far-reaching, since Bard has done nothing less than revise the role of the cop. He is challenging society's definition of the policeman as an intractable enemy, concerned mainly with making arrests when ordinary sinners overstep the stern line drawn by the law. The 30th Precinct's F.C.I.U. has been recommended by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders as an effective and exemplary instrument...
...success, Morton Bard remains an activist busy spreading the gospel. On another grant, he is repeating his program in the New York Housing Authority Police Department, an independent force of 1,400, with responsibility for the 600,000 residents of Manhattan's 150 public-housing developments...