Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to cover the annual meeting of the Welfare Federation, but it's tough to tell about the veteran probate judge who is stealing from estates in his trust. It's easy to reprint the police chief's report on how crime has declined each year, but rugged when you set out to document how policemen are mooching from the refrigerators of brothels. It's easy to talk about desegregation far away, but not right at home...
Lint off the Mind. Straws in an ill wind, and then came the last straw: crime. Or was it punishment? Only a close reader of this closely written tale will be able to tell. The author does not scissor the story neatly out of whole cloth to a preconceived pattern; she rather lets the story woolgather its facts, like lint, off the top of Milt's mind. Milt's mind, it is true, often seems a mighty dull place to spend 310 pages, but even the dullness has its fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey...
...story centers around an ancient curse on the Barons of Ruddigore which compels them to commit a crime a day. The curse, together with a triple love story, fickle people always verging upon marriage, and the weird Ruddigores, keeps the action moving...
Under Italian law the seven killings could be judged an act of war (no penalty), a political crime (ten years imprisonment) or a common crime (life imprisonment). To underline his point that such killings were done on party orders and not just by one individual's impulse, the prosecutor asked for a finding of political crime. After eight hours of deliberation, the court so found...
Courbet's crime lay in giving monumental treatment to everyday subjects and drawing some of his deepest inspiration from direct contact with nature. Among his favorite areas were the forests near his native Ornans. It was probably there that in the 1860s he painted Forest Pool (see opposite), recently acquired by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, in which he set down a summer's instant that in breathless hush remains a delight to hunter and nature lover alike...