Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still another way. For some unexplained reason, Schell was able to spend several weeks working alongside the Chinese, in a factory and then on the legendary Tachai commune. While the first half of his book is devoted to the typical travelers' items (a visit to a school, a jail, a hospital), the rest is taken up by conversations with normal Chinese, instead of the official spokesmen who populate most works on China. Schell has a healthy bias against official statements, the "Brief Introductions" that are supposed to inform the visitor about a particular Chinese institution. Too often, he suggests...
Unlike the current breed of master spy, they aren't likely to wind up in jail for perjury, either. Le Carre goes a long way in his realism, stripping away the Barbie-doll glamor that clings to the image of the secret agent. LeCarre instead sculpts sensitive human beings that live and breathe...
Guilty Until Proven Innocent provides no categorical condemnations of the judicial system, though it easily could have. It seems that if Reilly had come from a poor urban setting, as do most juvenile delinquents, he would still be in jail today. Connery outlines the police and district attorney's mistakes, malicious and unwitting, but he views them with a touch of sympathy. What he writes instead is a compelling if somewhat sentimental story of a town with something more than cover-bridged innocence...
...about incest falls short of being at all comprehensive. He should have stuck with the fairly insightful thoughts on why Fallon likes to box, that he began with: The story revolves around an Irish kid from Brooklyn, who gets himself involved in a barroom brawl and winds up in jail. Jail turns out to do him a lot of good, because it is there that trainers discover Bobby's boxing talent (he isn't a good fighter yet, but he's got the instinck...), and launch him into training for the all-impressive boxing career which follows...
They were spared a possible jail term, Judge Theron Ward said, only to avoid "making martyrs out of them...