Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after giving birth, the mental state of three women was improved, and in 14 there was no change. In only one case was it adjudged worse-a schizophrenic, 18, who was unmarried. Concludes Psychiatrist Arkle: "In the vast majority of cases the decision not to intervene was the correct one as judged by the law in this country . . . It seems likely that, to an unbalanced woman, the stimulus of a normal pregnancy is less deleterious than [abortion] . . . The psychiatrist must not allow the sociologists and geneticists to deceive him into exceeding his duty as a physician...
...earliest beginnings down through the years to the present, the Roman Catholic Church has branded the Marxist doctrine of socialism with its disapproval. That disapproval became such a political reflex that Catholic parties often seemed to be identified with opposition to social progress itself. The effort to correct this impression, plus the urgent menace of Communism, gave birth, in post-World War II in Europe, to the surprisingly successful Christian Democratic movements in Italy, Western Germany, Belgium and France...
...slander. The case was thrown out when Coke spotted that the word messoinges, i.e., lies, had been translated as "messages." When the litigious plaintiff brought suit afresh, young Coke was tempted to ask for a demurrer, i.e., to plead that even if the plaintiff's arguments were correct, there was no legal cause of action. Then he routed the plaintiff in a straight legal battle. Out of this victory came the first of many sonorous Coke maxims: "[Never] hazard the matter upon a demurrer...
...help Japan correct its present foreign-exchange shortage, increase its cotton purchases, etc. Under study: about $500 million in loans, other forms of assistance...
...regret, however, that Houseman succumbed to the temptation of "improving" the play by cutting, although there are fewer cuts than one normally finds. A museum director does not crop a Rembrandt painting to fit the space on the wall; nor do music publishers and performers "correct" Beethoven's and Chopin's "mistakes" as they used to. We should be allowed to judge a play just as the author left it, without the benefit of the director's superior insight as to how it ought to have been written. And, of all Shakespeare's plays, Othello is the one that most...