Word: culkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film for as little as $25, and a workable 16-mm. camera can be had for as little as $40. McLuhan-age educators, moreover, welcome this form of creative endeavor. Some foresee the day when film training will be an accepted and universal part of education. Says Father John Culkin, head of Fordham's Center for Communications: "Students ought to be learning the fundamentals in grade school-early high school at the latest-so that when they finally get to college, they have an opportunity to blossom out, without worrying about the mechanics...
This autumn, Judge Gerald D. Culkin handed down this verdict on the two Puerto Rican youths, which, unfortunately echoed the attitudes of men like Msgr. McCafferey. Before pronouncing the sentence, he issued a brief statement the gist of which was that society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful outbreaks of violence." He then sentenced the youths to death in the electric chair. After the decision had been issued, a Times reporter learned that there was no previous record of a 17-year-old boy being sent to the electric chair...
Society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful violence," Judge Culkin maintained. But how does the execution of two teenage boys provide society with any insight into the basic primary reasons for their crime? Judge Culkin, it seems, hardly comprehends the reason behind the murder. His argument seems to hinge on the premise that the act was premediatated, that these youths have intentions comparable to those of gangsters...
...point is that social work agencies have done a great deal to convince these youths that society is not necessarily their mortal enemy. Judge Culkin's decision to execute the two Puerto Rican boys is a literal contradiction of this progressive policy...
...what brought Jack back was a far cry from a final determination. The indictment against him was dismissed on technical grounds by Judge Gerald Patrick Culkin, a second-generation Tammany wheelhorse. The indictment, ruled Judge Culkin, was defective because, under New York law, the conspiracy charge should have been separated from the charter violation charges; moreover, the indictment did not specifically state that Jack was aware of Ungar's business with the city when he accepted the "loan...