Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to thank Crime reporters Kutik and Bruck for the free advertising they gave me in their coverage of Wednesday's University Hall occupation. However, I neither warrant nor need the publicity...
...residents receive some kind of public assistance. Relations between the city's 38,000 whites and its 44,000 Negroes are abrasive at best. Though little organized vice survives and the once famous red-light district is deserted, East St. Louis has one of the worst crime rates of any U.S. city its size. There were 47 murders in 1968 and 15 so far in 1969. Only the brave dare walk its streets after dark...
...When they rip up one campus and all that happens is that their right to use the ice-cream-bar machine is revoked for one hour, what do you expect?" Should marijuana be legalized? "By all means. Also murder, rape and arson-then we could do away with all crime...
...Americans at the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and ended with the end of the world. A third, Mother Night, explored the guilt of a patriotic spy and propaganda agent, "a man," as Vonnegut summed him up, "who served evil too openly and good too secretly, the crime of his times...
...Instead he specialized mainly in chemistry and anthropology at a congeries of colleges (Cornell, Carnegie Tech, Chicago) during and after World War II. To earn a living in the lean years, Vonnegut, who is the son and grandson of prosperous, German-stock architects in Indianapolis, has worked as a crime reporter, a Saab dealer, and flack for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. "I started to write," he recalls, "because I hated that job so much." Schenectady keeps turning up in his books as a grim, upstate New York town called Ilium...