Word: bard
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Police Mystique. The F.C.I.U. was founded on the urging of Morton Bard, 46, a psychologist at City College of New York who believes that policemen constitute an unexploited and unparalleled human resource in the fields of social welfare and mental health. Police departments are one of the few human rescue services available 24 hours a day every day. As Bard says, "Most doctors won't make house calls, but all cops will...
...Bard got a $95,000 grant from the Justice Department to finance his program. Enlisting police cooperation was no problem, but maintaining it proved more difficult. Police duty is traditionally defined as crime prevention and law enforcement-functions that take only 10% to 20% of a policeman's time. Among his many other duties-directing traffic, recovering stray pets and children, maintaining order-none is more thoroughly unpopular than intervening in personal quarrels...
...police mystique," Bard has written, "places its highest value on a masculinity usually defined by toughness, imperviousness to feelings, and a tight-lipped readiness to neutralize conflict by a quick draw in the middle of Main Street." Until very recently, getting into a gun fight was the fastest way for a New York patrolman to win promotion. Family crisis intervention, in contrast, has been largely unrewarded...
...praised for a lot of the wrong reasons: "topical, Jewish and political reasons." He no longer needs to make money from teaching, but Bellow continues to follow a pattern familiar to less successful American novelists. He has taught writing and literature at Minnesota, Princeton, New York University and Bard. "One year there seemed like ten," he says. "No one knows the demands a progressive school makes on a teacher." Now he is at the University of Chicago, giving courses in Joyce and Melviile and serving, along with Hannah Arendt and Edward Shils, the university's prestigious Committee on Social...