Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marvin Wolfgang, a University of Pennsylvania sociologist. He is frustrated, both in his work and in his personal life, and probably has some kind of sexual problems. Feeling rejected by his parents, he will likely seek reassurance in some larger paternalistic group, like the military. Both Moore and Fromme fit the otherwise male pattern. Moore was a WAC, and Fromme was a slave in Charles Manson's regimented family. Even in that larger group, however, the potential assassin will almost inevitably find or feel rejection...
...holding for nearly twelve hours while on a robbery spree in May 1974, has testified that she talked very clearly and proudly about her escapades. Even if argued successfully, a plea of insanity carries a special risk: Patty might be confined to a mental institution until she was judged fit to return to society...
...witnesses are wily, some cringe, some babble to save themselves in a variety of plea bargaining, some show valor. It is honorable that Arthur Miller will incriminate no one but him self and that Lillian Hellman's credo is, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." But that does not automatically brand the men who confessed and "named names" as mor al lepers. When Stalin has been your god, how do you redeem your guilt...
...expressed by a writer, Sartre concludes that they are not what a writer has to say. When you write about these subjects, you depend on certain technical words whose meaning within the frameword of history, let's say, has been agreed on. A special language has been devised to fit these disciplines...
...generations of Neumillers. Between these obituary landmarks, Charles' son Martin marries, raises a family of five reasonably normal children, moves from North Dakota to Illinois and loses his wife to uremia. That is, in effect, the whole story. The plot of Beyond the Bedroom Wall could easily fit into half a nutshell...