Word: bazelon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both lawyers and psychiatrists, would change court rules. Experts could testify fully on the defendant's mental state, but would not be forced to render opinion on the ultimate question of responsibility. "That's a decision for the jury," says U.C.L.A.'s Suarez. Federal Judge David Bazelon adds that "the decision is often painfully difficult, and perhaps its very difficulty accounts for the readiness with which we have encouraged the experts to decide the question." In a democratic society, which believes in letting its citizens decide how offenders should be treated, the jury has a responsibility from...
...Power is a word uppermost in many a mind. Fulbright published The Arrogance of Power, McCarthy The Limits of Power and Journalist Theodore Draper The Abuse of Power during 1967. Other studies included David Bazelon's Power in America, Nicholas Demerath's Power, Presidents and Professors, and Stokely Carmichael's Black Power...
...IRWIN BAZELON New York City Sir: A delightful story about an amazing man. But in an apparent burst of Gesamtkunstwerk the cover artist not only turned Mr. Sing's parchment-over-steel face into pastry lumped over oboe; he brocaded him into the background. Holy Schlock...
Erupting World. Bazelon says that he is called Bud because "Irwin just isn't me." He used to be an Irwin, though. That was back in the days when he was studying composition at De Paul University in Chicago. Partly because of a punctured eardrum that left him semideaf, he was "shy, diffident, introverted-an exceptionally quiet guy." Six months of study with Composer Paul Hindemith at Yale didn't help matters much; he lost 25 Ibs. and suffered a nervous breakdown. "I couldn't take his Prussian taskmaster tactics," says Bazelon. Bazelon eventually 'fled...
...Then Bazelon met a psychiatrist who not only "revealed to me my true personality," but steered him to an ear doctor who restored his hearing with an operation. Suddenly, he recalls, "the violent, silent world inside me erupted. I came out of my shell." And how. Exclaims Bazelon: "I became outgoing, warm, animated, tremendously buoyant -a rock 'em, sock 'em personality. And my music became just as dramatic as I am." exit Irwin; enter...