Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When forced to answer the question, as they frequently are, psychological experts will often fall back on the premise of their training. Wisconsin's Halleck notes that the average psychiatrist is slightly biased toward blame because in day-to-day practice he has found that "if he is ever going to help people overcome their difficulties, he must constantly implore them to assume responsibility for their actions." Nonetheless, psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrists, who tend to believe that unconscious forces determine a man's deeds, are more likely to find an offender nonresponsible; those who deal primarily with graphs showing...
Nonetheless, there are good reasons why even the best experts should disagree. One is that only difficult borderline mental cases ever get to court in the first place. Defendants who show obvious symptoms of illness are committed to institutions immediately, as incompetent to stand trial. The offenders who are left, Yale Law School Professor Abraham S. Goldstein points out, are usually men who seem calm in the dock even though they may have been seriously disordered at the time of the crime...
...often painfully difficult, and perhaps its very difficulty accounts for the readiness with which we have encouraged the experts to decide the question." In a democratic society, which believes in letting its citizens decide how offenders should be treated, the jury has a responsibility from which no science can ever completely absolve...
...will be equipped with life-detection instruments. Because the best prospects for life would almost certainly exist in the most humid areas, Astronomer Schorn suggests that the first landing be made at the edge of a receding polar cap, where the Martian soil should be as wet as it ever gets...
While his Biafra series finally established Churchill as a respected professional, his words have seen print ever since he graduated from Eton in 1959 and took a summer job in New York writing headlines for the Wall Street Journal. He earned a modern-history degree from Oxford, then joined an expedition through the Sahara. That trip led to his first bylined story, which appeared in the London Sunday Express...