Word: civics
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...professor of visual design. "We switch light on and off, send it where we will, and when we will, negate it. We project, reflect, fix, focus, chop, diffuse and scatter it. Why, then, are we not struck by the realization that the palette of a stupendous new civic art has been put in our hands...
...cooperative ventures that they have so assiduously avoided in the past. Though its initial appropriation of $12 million is scarcely enough to buy 1½ miles of Manhattan subway, the program at last-and at least-recognizes that the metropolitan crisis demands a coordinated, scientific approach to quicken civic consciences and radically improve the total context of city living...
Dead Crime. Is there no law against "civic indifference"? asks Lawyer George Goldberg in the American Bar Association Journal. There is indeed, he says. It is called "misprision of felony" (from the Old French mesprendre, to mistake). Misprision is a crime of omission-a failure to act. In 1907, the Vermont Supreme Court defined it as "a criminal neglect either to prevent a felony or to bring the offender to justice after its commission." Misprision thus differs from "accessory" offenses, such as assent or assistance in a felony. Because the two are easily confused, however, misprision is almost never prosecuted...
...interest that I read your article concerning Captain Ronald Rod and his efforts to help the people of Due Pho [Dec. 24]. As his replacement, I have become all too painfully aware that a program such as the one he started is desperately .needed. It is my hope that civic organizations everywhere will take an interest in helping people in places like Due Pho. They can use all the help they can get. JAMES V. KIMSEY Captain, U.S.A. Senior Adviser Due Pho District Viet...
Xavier Domingo, a 36-year-old Spaniard who works as a literary journalist in Paris, has chosen to write about a civic "nightmare"-the 1961 police action against the sub-proletariat of Algerians living in the squalid city outskirts-in terms of a real nightmare...