Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innovation that might go a long way to ease community relations?as well as to disprove many charges of outright brutality?is a civilian board, a kind of ombudsman to review citizen complaints. But police everywhere look upon the notion with undisguised horror as an unwarranted invasion from the outside. "Today," says San Francisco's Chief Tom Cahill, "you cannot even look mean. That may be police brutality...
After Robert Kennedy's murder, the Associated Press counted 199 Americans killed by gunfire in only seven days. The toll of citizen slaughter apparently rose even higher last week...
...nation that has historically concerned itself with enlarging the electorate, the U.S. has always treated one large group of citizens with curious neglect. Over the years, five major groups have been added to the voting ranks: the landless (under the Constitution), Negroes (1870), women (1920), Washingtonians (1961) and refugees from the poll tax (1964). Yet America, a nation obsessed with youth, with nearly half its population under 25, does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given...
...Helen M. Lynd, authors of Middletown and Middletown in Transition, both classic sociological studies of a small city in the 1920s and 1930s. Staughton, now 38, is best known as editor of the book Nonviolence in Amer ica and as a confirmed peace marcher and self-appointed citizen-envoy to North Viet Nam. He seems to be acting out his own role in a contemporary sequel to his parents' books that might be called Middletown in Revolt...
...begins to talk and to assume human characteristics. Unfortunately, they are those of the balalaika player, a sodden, crude-minded lowlife. Nevertheless, the dog is welcomed as an equal by the sanctimoniously proletarian house committee of the professor's apartment building. Sharik the dog becomes "Sharikov" the Soviet citizen. He is supplied with identity papers and, except for a tendency to chase cats, is indistinguishable from any other member of the ruling mass. That is to say, Bulgakov suggests, he is stupid, foulmouthed, disrespectful, noisily political, vodka-soaked, treacherous and fond of hideous neckties. After some thought, the professor...