Word: goad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Community Treatment. The real way to change criminal behavior is to goad losers into earning the self-respect that they lack in the first place. Menninger would abolish today's moralistic "punishment" for the few, which simply deepens their hostility. Along with far swifter police work, he favors a therapeutic approach. Trials should mainly determine the facts of a crime, ignore the defense of "legal insanity" and bar the squabbling rival psychiatrists who now only serve to confuse the proceedings. Instead, judges before sentencing should be provided with psychiatric reports and (as in California) hand out only indeterminate sentences...
...were they? Most were college students, but their politics varied. They included antiwar protesters and radicals who believed that the present political system must be shouted (and broken) down. Others were dissenting moderates, trying to goad candidates to speak more explicitly on the issues...
...tunes and new ones, comedy sketches and big production numbers. Old Pro George Burns helped tie together the opening-night proceedings with cigar-chomping asides and monologues. Another guest, Tony Randall, contributed a mix of roguish, debonair and fumbling antics. Other celebrities will appear in future weeks to goad the ingratiating team of Morse and Peaker along their song-and-dance journey through courtship and marriage. That's Life should live, if not happily ever after, at least for the TV season...
...capturing forever the adolescent mind; they are indeed too busy with their own concerns for that. The sad truth is, however, that not only at Harvard, but in every school, the only intellectual stimulation of lasting value is from within a student himself; no classroom, however glittering, can goad him to an end he is loath to achieve. The professors Mr. Alexander describes have failed indeed: but they have failed in the impossible. I do not deny that we love and respect most those professors who make the glorious attempt to reach other people in a profound way; but what...
...Gallup maintains that in his very first opinion sampling on gun control 34 years ago, 84% of the nation favored strong legislation. The figure has remained at or near that level ever since. Yet Congress has assiduously ignored such evidence of public opinion. John Kennedy's assassination did not goad Capitol Hill to act. There was a brief flurry, centering around Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's bill to ban the mail-order sale of all guns, but as soon as the N.R.A. started moving, Congress stopped. Its paralysis persisted after last April's slaying of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy...