Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerto. The organ does not contrast with the orchestra but stirs it up and then masses forces with it. Considered shocking at the time ("If a young man at the age of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder!" declared Con ductor Walter Damroseh), the work has never been recorded until now. The New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting, provides a gentle-to-jazzy buildup for Organist E. Power Biggs...
Reverse English. G.O.P. Governors proved equally disappointing: though 18 of the 26 were privately for Rockefeller, only Maryland's Spiro T. Agnew, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Oregon's McCall would publicly commit themselves. Romney, whom Rocky had supported before New Hampshire, began to feel that Rockefeller had used him and pointedly refrained from backing the New Yorker. After Rockefeller's announcement last week, Lenore Romney, the Governor's outspoken wife, allowed that the Michigander "would have continued his campaign had he not felt that Mr. Rockefeller was going to be a candidate...
Perhaps the most appalling aspect of all this is the fact that the number of crimes is increasing because the number of young people is growing, and they commit most crimes. Viewing this situation objectively leads to two basic conclu sions. First, the U.S. is now spending $1 billion a year for corrections in ways that can only increase crime. Second, a dramatically different approach can decrease it - for the same money...
...Massachusetts, as elsewhere in this country, the decision to commit a person against his will is made almost exclusively by psychiatrists. The loose language of the Massachusetts statute--which has not been substantially amended in almost a century--establishes such meaningless criteria for commitment that in practice it usually precludes effective court proceedings and review...
State legislatures have failed to make policy decisions specifying who shall be detained and why. Nor have they specified the necessary degree of likelihood for a person to commit a harm. In other words, it doesn't matter whether a person might commit a harm, is likely to commit a harm, or is more than likely to commit a harm. In practice, all a psychiatrist must say is that a person is "likely to be dangerous to himself or to others" to effect his incarceration...