Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Analyze what today's graduate is looking for in a career. If his education has weaned him away from the ideal of "self" and toward the ideal of "awareness and contribution" as regards the problems of society, the graduate is looking for a career in which he can commit himself to help solve these problems. Police work will give him that chance. Law-enforcement executives and college placement bureaus should plan programs toward this goal. Perhaps then the two poles of "cop" and "professional" can be reconciled...
Longer-term results are more difficult to gauge. After release, program members commit far fewer offenses than others. But Cook admits that "sometimes we can only cut down the type or frequency of crime." In any case, he has high hopes for the current group, will recommend that half be taken out of the program immediately and given full freedom...
...longer an innocent freshman questing, but rather a jaded graduate detouring. He revolves in typical refugee circles, begins to bed down casually, regards paternity indifferently, soon marries carelessly. Although still a painter, he has also started to dabble at writing -in Swedish-but he has yet to commit himself fully either to art or to his own life...
...reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense. After taking a look at his blood-spattered apartment and German Model Eva Marie Bohn-Chin, 22, lying semiconscious below his balcony, they arrested the former Cleveland star on charges of felony battery against a peace officer and assault with intent to commit murder. The prosecutor later dropped the assault charge when Eva refused to name Jimmy as the assailant...
...three Democratic candidates last week took off the gloves and began punching barefisted. Eugene McCarthy, for the first time, directly charged Robert Kennedy with a major role in the initial decision to commit U.S. military power to Southeast Asia, declaring that Camelot II might lead to "further involvements like Viet...