Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emile Kahn, president of the League of the Rights of Man, urged the court to remember "that most noble French tradition which does not punish a political crime with capital punishment." Author Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist and sometime Communist sympathizer, turned up garbed in a grey overcoat and moccasins, argued that "one has to distinguish between political crime and terrorism. Terrorism, practiced to inspire fear, despises human life. The political killer demonstrates his respect for human life when he seeks, by killing, to avoid vast slaughter. Remember Charlotte Corday [who stabbed Marat in his bath]. All the French are proud...
There being no press in the south Atlantic and no readers in Cambridge, the Crime will abandon publication until January 6, 1958, at which time Cambridge's only breakfast table daily will again return to action...
...home. Said the ministry, with remarkably broad understanding of the case's basic meanings: "We pay our respects to the [U.S. Supreme Court] verdict that gave Japan jurisdiction over the case, thereby clarifying the prestige of the Japanese courts at home and abroad . . . The verdict recognized the crime ... In the light of the above fact, it is hard to say that the sentence was such a serious mistake that its abandonment should be sought...
...Crime v. Sin. With the spiritual might of the Established Church behind him, the Archbishop of Canterbury gave Pakenham's view his unqualified support. Britain's Primate had earlier drawn a clear distinction between "crime" as a concern of the law-and "sin" as the concern of the Church. Law, he said, should still be invoked to protect and control those under 21 and "to protect the unwilling over that age," but the sin of homosexuality by consenting adults in private "should not come within the ambit...
...geographical proximity. (Except for Illinois' Danville Commercial-News, New Jersey's Plainfield Courier-News and the Hartford Times, all are published in New York cities and small towns.) Conservative in news judgment as in politics, they have little use for exposes, play down stories of sex and crime. "A newspaper, to suit me," said Gannett, "must be one that I would be willing to have my mother, my own sister or daughter read." Many readers, particularly in the 15 cities where Gannett has a monopoly, complain that the modern mothers would not object to livelier coverage or sharper...