Word: faired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, who have been demanding apologies from the regime, reinstatement for those expelled from school and fair press coverage, Go-mulka's speech was an official brushoff. Many continued cutting classes or staging sit-ins outside them, even after signs went up threatening expulsion-and a loss of draft exemption. At Cracow's Ja-gellonian University, students staged a sitdown strike for two days running. Warsaw University authorities locked the campus gates when thousands of students refused to attend lectures. At War saw's Polytechnical Institute, some 5,000 students sacked out in the hallways, playing cards...
What eludes U.S. penology (from the Latin poena, meaning pain) is the basic recipe of effective punishment: speedy, inescapable prosecution, a fair chance for a fresh start, and state-upheld values that offenders can reasonably acknowledge as superior to their own. For one thing, 77% of reported U.S. crimes are never solved; many are never even reported. Thus, most caught criminals see their problem as bad luck rather than bad character. Indeed, such are the human mind's defenses that the guilty often feel in nocent. Dostoevsky astutely depicts a would-be murderer viewing...
...that the Gazette watches only over its own citizenry. In summer, the population swells from 6,000 to some 50,000, and the paper views the comings and goings of these fair-weather residents with a wry Yankee eye. Max Eastman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Hart Benton, James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein are the stuff of summer gossip. Such is its relish for celebrities that the Gazette mixes fact' with fantasy in breezy abandon. One memorable item revealed that "Truman Capote and Geraldine Chaplin have checked into the bridal suite of the Menemsha...
...strike down laws which Justices found to be 'unreasonable,' 'arbitrary,' 'capricious,' or 'contrary to a fundamental sense of civilized justice.' What, for example, do the phrases 'shock the conscience' or 'offend the community's sense of fair play and decency' mean? I submit that these expressions impose no limitations or restrictions whatever on judges, but leave them completely free to decide constitutional questions on the basis of their own policy judgments...
...Harvard Corporation has chosen Philip Johnson, one of the designers of the New York State Pavilion at the New York World's Fair and the Lincoln Center in New York, as the building's architect...