Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even if the law were effective, there is reason to question its validity. Truman maintained that "it would put the government in the thought control business." Moreover, it almost certainly violates the Fifth Amendment, as subsequent court decisions have borne out. The guilt by association brandishment of radical organizations and publications as "communist-front" is a threat to the right of free speech. The law condemns groups which offer no real threat other than dissension, one of the jealously guarded rights of a democratic society...
...system of criminal law heavily relies on the defense to present its own case as strongly as possible. Shea's cooperation with the prosecution made his defense extremely difficult-especially since his parents and his attorney thought he was probably guilty. During his six years in prison, the guilt-ridden defendant even complained that "this woman I killed keeps standing at the foot of my bed and screaming at me." Without the probing stirred up by a trio of responsible citizens, he might still be serving his life sentence. "It is you who must stand between...
...decade ago, the Supreme Court had declined to review Sheppard's life sentence for the murder of his wife. Then, in 1964, he was released from jail by U.S. District Judge Carl Weinman, who did not rule on the doctor's guilt or innocence but ordered a new trial. The press, he said, had kept the defense from getting an unbiased verdict...
...promoters of nude parties contend that their motivation is intellectual and philosophical, not merely sensual. Nonstudent Richard Thome, 29, a Negro who heads an off-campus East Bay Sexual Freedom League, argues that "man will only become free when he can overcome his own guilt and when society stops trying to manage his sex life for him." His idea of freedom is parties in which individuals can engage in any sexual act "that doesn't impose on the desire of other people...
After tripping backward into a love triangle, Ivanov, queasy with guilt, lashes out directly at his wife (a convert from Judaism played by Vivien Leigh). Gielgud's fingers claw at the nonexistent handle of a desk drawer, his eyes hesitate. His voice pauses for an instant and then spills out the word, "Jewess!" Finally, he tells her the doctor thinks she will die very soon, and his flaring agitation dies down to remorse...