Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some notable experience with civil action. In 1977 he formed something called the Rock Brigade, 63 high school kids, all volunteers, who are still providing and servicing 440 garbage cans in the ghettos of the South Bronx to set an example of how to keep a neighborhood clean. Considering crime on the subways, Sliwa came to a conclusion. "Volunteer patrols," he recalls, "seemed the only way to show those bums the public's had enough...
Sliwa began recruiting in the jungles of the South Bronx among ghetto kids who, in the eyes of the world, are more likely to be criminals than crime fighters. Among the original 13 is Tony Mayo, 18, a black who never knew his father, lost his mother when he was still a toddler, was then raised by relatives in one of the grimmest sections in any American city. "I'm nearly a black belt," says Mayo. "I can disarm a man carrying a knife. I've developed a spiritual eye. I can feel you behind...
...readers, it turns out, mean something else by the bias they criticize: they mean the tendency of newspapers to "emphasize bad news over the good." They are convinced that this is done just to sell papers; they admit to liking to read crime news but feel a little ashamed in doing so. They think their home town is better than the newspaper paints it. Talking to his own readers in Dayton, Editor Rosenfeld found them questioning the editor's self-righteous conviction that he only reports a world he never made: "Readers see us as moral vigilantes . . . the voice...
...Tommy. This is the work that turns the crime of passion into an art form. This is the story of a young boy's lapse into a blind, deaf and dumb state, induced by witnessing his father's murder. This is the story of a boy who suffers repeated assault to emerge as pinball champion, guru, and finally, a victim of his own followers' violence. This is the show that almost appeared in Dudley House. However, a Master's wrath (piqued by an oversize stage) forced a sudden relocation to the Currier fishbowl...
...concentrates so heavily on owners and proprietors, Halberstam's portrait of the press is full of big money. This presence unquestionably adds spice. And his guarded sympathy for publishers also offers a useful corrective to many books about the press. Seeking profits, in Halberstam's story, is no crime; a news organization that goes broke can no longer do any harm or good. "It was a curious irony of capitalism," he writes, "that among the only outlets rich enough and powerful enough to stand up to an overblown, occasionally reckless, otherwise unchallenged central government were journalistic institutions that had very...