Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coral Browne's Lady Macbeth also lacked depth, and failed in the sleepwalking scene. Yet, if theatrical, she was often commandingly so. And the two together went far beyond mere partnership in crime. Theirs was a fierce connubial bond that helped humanize a woman who all but lacks humanity and a man who all but loses...
These names are deliberately transparent pseudonyms for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, in this fictionalized account by Novelist Meyer Levin of what he calls the "crime of our century." The real victim of Leopold and Loeb was 14-year-old Bobby Franks, and the dropped glasses gave them away. Only a brilliant defense by famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow saved them from hanging...
Brats or Geniuses? Many have asked their whys of the Leopold-Loeb crime, and given answers ranging from "spoiled brats" to diabolic possession. Levin, who was an undergraduate contemporary of Leopold and Loeb at the University of Chicago in 1924, has offered a new version after 32 years' thought and a two-hour conversation with Leopold...
...from one newspaper to another, the ban on racial identification is usually lifted only when the story 1) is favorable. 2) involves a wanted felon, or 3) would make no sense otherwise, e.g., the report of a racial clash. The result: Negroes are seldom identified when they figure in crime stories...
...newspaper properly serving either its readers, its community or the interests of the Negro when it masks the fact that there is a heavier crime rate among Negroes than whites? In New York City, for example, it would come as a surprise to most newspaper readers that Negroes comprise 10% of the population but commit about 35% of the crime.*Says a police official in a big California city: "Sixty percent of our crime lies squarely in [the Negroes'] lap, and the papers ought to show the community what the crime problem is and where...