Word: defectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People's Congress early this year (TIME cover, Feb. 3). But Chou himself, 77, has been hospitalized since May with heart disease. Chairman Mao is semiretired. He is still mentally alert at meetings with foreigners, but his thick Hunanese accent has been made more impenetrable by a speech defect. Even his interpreters must double-check with him to be sure of what he is saying...
...Director of ihe Philadelphia Child Guidance Center, has already attracted wide attention with his work on anorexia nervosa, the "starvation disease" (TIME, July 28). Now Minuchin and his team are concentrating on asthma and diabetes. In one case of diabetic sisters, ages twelve and 17, doctors found a metabolic defect, but only the younger sister responded to drugs and diet changes. A therapist found out why: each parent constantly tried to get her support in fights with the other parent. The allegiance of the twelve-year-old was not sought. Once the parents stopped trapping the older sister in their...
While Catholicism takes it squarely on the chin a number of times, Damiani's point is that there is just no getting away from Mother Church. As it turns out, he means it quite literally. The journalist escapes from the Jackson regime, and other residents of the hostel defect as well. But none can live without the church's comforting repression. All find their way back there quite soon, except the journalist, the eternal skeptic, who just has a good laugh about the whole thing. The Devil Is a Woman, however, makes a pretty flat cosmic joke...
...Common Defect. Most of the pilots' widows thought the problem was more fundamental, and 50 of them brought suit in 1971 against Lockheed, claiming that the planes had been improperly designed. Their counsel, flamboyant San Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli, had difficulty proving their case, however. "There wasn't a common defect to all the planes as we had thought," said a Belli associate last week. Nevertheless, it appeared that a few of the widows might win their cases, and Lockheed insurers agreed to settle out of court. The reparations totaled a modest $1.2 million, about half...
...able to distinguish right from wrong. In 1954 the Durham rule, formulated by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, greatly broadened the psychiatric defense by declaring that a person is not criminally responsible "if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect." In a refinement of both rules, the Model Penal Code of 1962-now essentially the rule in 20 states and most federal courts-bases the test on a defendant's lack of "substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements...