Word: guilts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Intourist Hotel to arrange illegal ruble-dollar exchanges; in fact, Crawford was staying seven floors away in Room 1120. Another Soviet insisted that similar transactions occurred last December, even though Crawford was in the U.S. at the time. Other defendants, meanwhile, urged Crawford to change his plea and admit guilt along with them...
...meaning, it must carry predictable consequences. And the law for some years has not been certain whether it meant to be a guilt-ridden social worker or a hanging judge. The erratic justice that emerges from the badly overburdened system has been further complicated by the society's spasms of conscience. These arise from the larger unsolved questions of social justice in the U.S., principally poverty and racism. But those questions cannot be solved by a mindless leniency toward criminals in the courts. That policy invites contempt from the poor, who are much more likely than others...
...Robert C. Wurmsted last week: "I've been afraid ever since I was shot. It's like being a prisoner for two years. I don't feel secure enough to go out by myself. I get very depressed." She is convinced of her husband's guilt-"I was looking right at him, talking to him, as he was dragging me back into the house"-and she remembers that he used to beat her and Dee. Once, she recalls, he killed Dee's kitten by smashing it against the kitchen floor...
Ideally anyone charged with a crime in the U.S. is entitled to his day in court. The litany of rights is familiar: the state must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the accused has the right to be tried by a jury of his peers, and an impartial judge must carefully weigh the facts before handing down a sentence...
...against that darkness in the album's title. There are a lot of victims, like the girl in Racing in the Street, one of Springsteen's best songs, who "stares off alone into the night/ With the eyes of one who hates for just being born." Intimations of guilt and the dim promise of salvation shade and deepen the darkness, but for every casualty it claims, there are others who strain against it. "Badlands, you gotta live it every day," Springsteen sings in the opening number...