Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hartford. Touché, 19, who earned his nickname by his dexterity with a switchblade, has been in trouble since he was eleven; he started fires, snatched pocketbooks, stole cars, burglarized homes, slashed and shot people. When a pal was locked up in Connecticut's Meriden Home for Boys, Touché broke in...
Some juvenile courts make the punishment fit the crime precisely. The thief is forced to make restitution; he may go to work for the person whose property he has stolen or destroyed, or he may take some other job until the money is paid back. In Seattle, lesser offenders are...
It is a long story, complex, laced with irony (as any tale of cultural colonization must be), and unquestionably central to the history of modern art. Until now, no museum has attempted to document it with one mammoth show, and in fact the Pompidou Center is the only institution in...
In a book published last week, The Grand Jury: An Institution on Trial, U.S. Judge Marvin Frankel and Attorney Gary Naftalis conclude: "The Grand Jury has served too often to harass the unorthodox and the unpopular." Several reforms suggested by Frankel and Naftalis appear in a bill submitted by U.S...
The "punches," which traditionally included informal musical performances, were a "grand old institution," but the decline in attendance in recent years indicated that the school's limited resources could be better directed elsewhere, Marshall Pihl, associate director of the Summer School, said yesterday.