Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...differ completely in our attitudes toward curbing crime by dealing with its root causes. Mr. Nixon feels that the relationship between poverty and crime is exaggerated, that "if the conviction rate were doubled in this country, it would do more to eliminate crime than a quadrapuling of the funds of any governmental war on poverty"; and that "the wave of lawlessness is due to the example of intellectuals and the growing disrespect of the young." Moreover, Mr. Nixon has used the Supreme Court and the Attorney General as scapegoats...
...crime for Czechoslovaks to visit the grave of Thomas Masaryk, who founded their republic 50 years ago this week. But it is at least an act of courage. Last week, in advance of Czechoslovakia's anniversary celebrations, security agents at the graveside conspicuously photographed each pilgrim. Everywhere, Czechoslovaks are surrounded by a poised apparatus of repression. They are settling into a mood of resignation, withdrawing back into their private lives, abandoning politics once more to the politicians...
...reports from New Haven and Washington clearly suggest that police are violating both the letter and the spirit of Miranda. And they are under little pressure to change their ways. Last spring, reacting to the politics of "law and order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains a direct attack on Supreme Court doctrine. Never mind Miranda's strict rules in federal prosecutions, says one section of the law; now judges need only consider "all the circumstances" in which a confession was obtained be fore they rule on whether it was voluntary. That was, in effect...
...murder in a small provincial town: Claire Lannes kills her middleaged, deaf-mute cousin for no apparent reason, hacks up the body in a cellar and dumps the pieces from a railway bridge onto various passing trains. If there is one thing Madame Duras likes, it is a nice crime of passion, the bloodier the better. Shots, screams, strangled cries, murdered wives and jealous husbands recur in many of her stories, and so does a restless and tormented heroine. Claire Lannes is only the latest in a long line of broody ladies who are young no longer, neglected or betrayed...
...nouveau roman. Thus L'Amante Anglaise consists of three tape-recorded interviews conducted by an anonymous questioner and presented without comment, narrative or description. The first is an expository conversation with a cafe owner; in the second, Claire's husband Pierre gives his version of the crime; in the third, the murderess herself speaks. A typical session goes like this...