Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Masterpieces often remain hidden in plain sight," Eliot said last week, "but none more so than the Sistine ceiling, perhaps the greatest painting ever made. It is exposed to view and yet cannot be seen. For one thing, it gleams a long way overhead, 68 feet at its apex, and it is enormous-5,599 square feet. The huge blue vault of air beneath it obscures all but the main figures...
...Revalue certain currencies. Among the undervalued currencies at present are the mark, the Swiss franc and probably the Italian lira and the Dutch guilder. Many financial experts believe that they should all be scaled slightly upward. The overvalued currencies-generally those that cannot buy as many goods and services at home as abroad-are the dollar, the pound and De Gaulle's franc...
...tends to confirm his notion. For one thing, trials are mainly contests between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits. The very fact that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers who spring rich clients. So the defendants plead guilty without trial and are sentenced by judges who cannot tell how many years will suffice for "rehabilitation." The criminals are caged in prisons without job training, suffer sexual deprivation, and eventually are dumped back into a society...
...example, the recent headline idea that the nation's courts should double the conviction rate-a sheer impossibility. Reason: 90% of all defendants already plead guilty, are thus convicted without trial. Of the 10% actually tried, more than half are convicted. Obviously, a rate of roughly 95% cannot be doubled...
...uneducable," McCoy said, "they're the victims of uncommitted teachers and 'separate but equal' facilities." He said there are 9000 students and only eight schools in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. "These children are two and one half years behind white students of comparable grade-level. Many of them still cannot read or write in the 7th grade," he said...