Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bird Man of Alcatraz. One of the strangest cases in U.S. penal history is that of Robert F. Stroud, who spent 43 years in solitary confinement. As the convict murderer who became a bird expert behind bars, Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career...
Reese's cartoons are a mixture of ink and acid. "You live your life sentence, I'll live mine," one Reese convict growls at another over mess-hall coffee. Says a guard to a prisoner in solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking...
Along with Evtushenko, almost all the ablest writers of the New Left are preoccupied with the doubts and dreams of Soviet youth. The most notable: Vladimir Tendryakov, a young prose writer whose most memorable story, about an escaped convict who bilks his rescuers, is a horrifying allegory aimed subtly at ex-Convict Joseph Stalin; Victor Rozov, most censured and celebrated for a script about a disturbed youth who cannot understand how his elders could defend evil from political necessity; Vasily Aksenov, whose young jets are pictured as mixed-up idealists; Victor Nekrasov, a psychological novelist with a penchant...
...House of Representatives did impeach Andrew Johnson. To impeach means to charge with a crime. What failed by one vote was the attempt to convict Johnson of the charges. The Senate, which has the sole right to try impeachment cases, acquitted President Johnson by a vote of 35 to 19, just one vote short of the required two-thirds majority...
Lugging his heavy cross, a convict was toiling up the steep street of Jerusalem that led to the hill of execution. He paused once, and would have rested against one of the houses. But the householder, standing in the doorway, told the convict to move on. He had seen plenty of such criminals on the way to crucifixion, and he did not think that they needed coddling. This one, though, turned and laid a curse on him: he was condemned to walk the earth through the centuries, yearning for death...