Word: informant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stott's answers do not turn out to be edifying or particularly helpful. They boil down to a few obvious and obviously simplistic statements, distinguishing between "factual" and "human" documents. The latter are those that "inform our feelings" and educate us about society in the only "authentic" possible way. Stott could have used his introductory chapters more fruitfully by examining the social pressures and political concerns and attachments that influenced the work he goes on to chronicle. As it is, we hardly know at times where Stott's appraisals end and the thirties' self-appraisals begin...
...tripled since Nixon took of fice; 2,000 employees have been added to the FBI payroll; strike forces against organized crime are rinding a happy hunting ground in Brooklyn, Newark, Boston, Chicago and New Orleans; U.S. attorneys are making new use of immunity pledges to get lesser lawbreakers to inform on bigger ones. Lawyers report that accused politicians have become nervous about trial juries. Being an investigator or a fearless prosecutor now seems as sure a route to becoming a household word as to be chosen Vice President of the U.S. This would seem to be one of those times...
...York street kid, but this movie asks us not only to accept that a man with that back ground could be aghast over a cop's getting free meals at a restaurant, but that he could violate the most basic code of the street: never inform. The source of Serpico's frantic, sometimes blind moral outrage is never shown...
Andrew F. Brimmer, visiting committee chairman, said at the meeting that he would inform the faculty of the undergraduates' wish for information concerning curriculum changes without waiting for the committee's report...
...court that the problem had only been discovered on Nov. 14? If Nixon knew about it on Oct. 1, why did he assure a conference of Republican Governors on Nov. 20 that all of the remaining tapes were "audible"? And why did no one from the White House inform the court much earlier...