Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support of changing the law were the Church of England, which found the report "thorough, courageous and liberal," and a Roman Catholic spokesman who said that the Wolfenden committee's recommendations were "only acceptance of the fact that the community should not, in general, pry into a citizen's private deeds-even when they are misdeeds...
Government efficiency experts estimate that only 20% of the civil servants really try to help the hapless citizen who must do business-and battle-with the state. The rest either do little or do nothing, throughout their easy workday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. By law, nothing can tear even the indolent and the inefficient from the payrolls except criminal conviction for repeated flagrant insubordination, which must be proved in a formal trial. Ministries are loaded with "temporary workers" who stay until death. Forbidden to hire new stenographers, the Ministry of Justice put them on the rolls as "prison...
...Recently police called on a Bari citizen, who had paid a fine in 1935 for skipping the Fascist pre-military course, to demand an uncollected registration fee: 55 centesimi (.088 of a cent). And not long ago at great output of bureaucratic labor, the government began paying off Sicilians for damage inflicted by troops of King Francis II during Garibaldi's campaign in 1860. Biggest payment: one-tenth of a cent...
...license by producing only an identity card instead of a good-conduct certificate, a notarized proof of signature and a police reference showing no penal record. Between helicopter swoops on unsuspecting offices all over Italy, Medici proclaimed his goal: "Democracy will become a reality only when any citizen can write to any state functionary with the certainty of receiving a clear, quick, satisfactory reply...
...volunteers moved on to a different kind of task: classes in the ABCs of civic responsibility. And out of each group, the brightest 80 were sent off to a special camp where the nation's top politicians lectured them on such matters as "the rights of a citizen" and "the democratization of Morocco...