Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Executions in past centuries were public events -- part ritual of citizenship, part savage entertainment. Every self-respecting English town had its gallows. As prisoners were carted from jail to noose, their friends along the route passed them strong drink and might turn the last mile into a macabrely hilarious rolling party. Later, the decorous 19th century thought it more humane and seemly to execute people out of sight, behind the prison walls...
...letter to go out this week requests that faculty members standardize procedures for reporting teaching, research, citizenship and public service. Last spring the Corporationasked the faculty to develop set guidelines forreporting outside activities...
...creation of the California Conservation Corps: "In 15 years, 15000 young men and women have gotten off the streets, gone into the High Sierras, fought fires, developed manhood, womanhood, good citizenship," Brown said last month. "This democracy and this government is controlled not by the American people but by those who are bringing it down...
Italian Jews eventually learned what happened to their coreligionists elsewhere under Nazi rule. Yet even after Mussolini approved the racial laws of 1938, which shatteringly demoted Jews to second-class citizenship, many naively clung to the belief that "it can't happen here." Ettore Ovazza of Turin, leader of the country's Jewish Fascists, remained a true believer until the very end -- perhaps even as he was shot dead by an SS officer while trying to escape to Switzerland in September 1943. A half-Jewish writer whose nom de plume was Pitigrilli converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Fascist...
...more than 30,000 people have sent in the forms to state comptroller John Sharp, who is going along with the joke by mailing applicants an "official" Texas-citizenship certificate. But since the certificate alone will not help non-Texans cut their taxes, Sharp advises them to "kiss Aunt Tillie goodbye and move down to God's own country...