Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within a hundred years after the Revolution, the form-and the problems-of crime and law enforcement had been set in ways that have endured to the present. The community had ceased to be self-regulating and had turned over more and more functions once performed by families and neighbors to policemen, wardens, penitentiaries, almshouses and asylums. The police could maintain order-the mob was no longer tolerated-but they could not prevent crime; they could enforce laws, but not unpopular ones; criminals might fear prison, but they were not reformed by it. With immigration approaching flood levels, the normal...
...coming to the unhappy realization that the police can rarely prevent crime and can solve at best only a small fraction of offenses. We now know that prisons cannot rehabilitate offenders. Hundreds of experimental studies on the treatment of criminals reach the same conclusion: no matter what form rehabilitation takes-vocational or academic training, individual or group counseling, long or short sentences, probation or parole-it does not work. We must finally concede that it is naive to suppose we can take a convict who has devoted a good part of his life to misbehavior of every sort and transform...
Couples fill in a confidential marriage form, which is filed with the county clerk and is then unavailable for inspection by anyone. That makes it easy for applicants intent on bigamy. Says William St. John, Orange County clerk: "There is nothing on the form that requires a couple to say how long they have been living together, if they had a previous marriage or divorce, and if the divorce is finalized...
When the bar was raised to 7 ft. 4 in., however, the tri-captain lost his form in his first two attempts. "A new height always creates a mental block that's tough to overcome," he said. "On my last try, though, I would have made it with a thinner pair of shorts," Embree added...
...style of comedy that is no longer written for the stage. Noel Coward was a member of the British aristocratic leisure class and his characters were reflections of his own lifestyle. These days the stock medium for these characters is satire. Their frivolous preoccupation with style and good form seems merely ludicrous. They are difficult to identify with so it now seems more appropriate to laugh at them rather than with them. But despite these changes in attitude, Present Laughter is still an effective comedy because Coward created his characters with performance in mind. His parts provide a rare opportunity...