Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter Macken) treats of an Irish household, and of the father's return to it after five years in prison for killing a man in a brawl. Paddo O'Reilly returns home an even worse bully than he went away: he has a new sense of guilt that makes him flagellate others instead of himself, and an old will to dominate that soon has him trying to upset everyone's plans and destroy everyone's happiness. Only at the end does Paddo-or rather, Playwright Macken-relent: in a most ignominious victory of plot over character...
...interviews at which a lawyer may accompany the summoned teacher. If any charges are levied against a teacher he has the right to a public trial, to counsel, to confront and cross-examine accusers and to testify in his own defense. He cannot be fired until his guilt has been proven before a court of law with rights of appeal and reinstatement should dismissal be held improper...
...First is the frequent use of the Fifth Amendment by professor when questioned about past activities. The discredit which this Constitutional safeguard has suffered is extremely unfortunate, for in the eyes of a great majority of the nation's population, its use is synonomous with the veiling of hidden guilt...
...comes up. In the pages of this issue is some record of cases that have been fought by administrations, but many more that have not been. The universities, must realize that the perfect case will never come. There will not be situations in which a man's guilt or innocence is so clear-cut or that a choice is easy. If a university will refuse to fight until it finds conclusive evidence of a man's innocence, it will never rise up to its own defense. Instead, if a university administration feels that one of its professors under attack...
...blame? Generously-for he was not a Vargas man, and became Vargas' Vice President only through a whim of politics-Café Filho said that "it is not to the point now to investigate origins or guilt." But the disastrous errors were, in fact, made by Vargas to keep the political support of 1) electricity consumers, 2) planters who demanded the high fixed price that, as an unintended result, forced coffee revenues down, 3) credit-hungry businessmen, and 4) wage-boosting labor...