Word: convicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a visiting Cardinal and his party. That the Cardinal actually aids the man is Cheever's way of saying that miracles are still possible. In the end, Farragut himself escapes like the Count of Monte-Cristo by hiding in a body bag intended for a dead convict. Since - unlike the Count - Farragut has no plans for revenge, the point seems to be that survival is always a miracle and reward enough. Falconer is not a young man's book...
...Last fall, Chin testified in a case involving a Stratford, Conn., policeman named Joseph Berke, who was convicted of having bugged the town hall, ostensibly to aid himself in the state examination for promotion. The bugs were discovered by electricians, and at the trial Chin testified that he had sold the cop a listening device-key testimony that helped convict Berke. Investigators theorize that Chin may have been rubbed out by someone else who had been using his equipment illegally and, hearing about the Berke case, decided that the bug maker had become too talkative for comfort. Then again, almost...
Five yards to Gilmore's right, behind a green line, were 20 people; four were the convict's invited guests: his uncle Vern Damico; his two lawyers, Robert Moody and Ronald Stanger; and Lawrence Schiller, a West Coast promoter who owns the rights to Gilmore's story. Warden Sam Smith invited them to say farewell, and then read to him the court's sentence of death for the murder of a young motel manager. Gilmore peered around the cold, harshly lit room, stared at the warden for a moment and finally said...
Does Mr. Schorr really believe that society is to blame for a ruthless and moody convict who told his attorney that he once avenged a friend by attacking another inmate with a hammer, leaving him paralyzed? Does Mr. Schorr sincerely feel that "Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime" when Gilmore by his own admission "didn't just kill him for the money"? "I just hate to be told what to do. It [the murder of the motel manager] was something that couldn't be stopped" (New York Times 11/15/76)--because, Mr. Schorr would have...
...handcuffed prisoner to Zurich on a chartered Aeroflot jet. Once the plane was no longer flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs and ex plained that Bukovsky would not be deprived of Soviet citizenship like Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was deported in 1974. Instead, the erstwhile convict was given a Soviet passport val id for five years of travel abroad. This final detail of Kafkaesque bureaucratic procedure amused Bukovsky. Said he: "I can still consider myself a political prisoner-but on holiday...