Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, at a press conference, Walker coldly demanded that Chicago's police department "root out and punish" the offending officers. "The blue curtain cannot be permitted to fall," he said. Walker blamed Daley for creating a climate of encouragement for police violence by ordering cops to "shoot to kill" arsonists after the city's ghetto riots last April. "When the police acted with restraint in April," Walker observed, "they were condemned. When they acted with violence, the city was silent...
...riot-study committee (Daniel Walker was No. 2 man) cited the restraint practiced by the police as a major factor in keeping the April riots from becoming even "more violent and widespread." But after April 1968, Daley criticized his police for their restraint and urged them to shoot to kill arsonists and maim looters. Says the report: "The effect on the police became apparent several weeks later when they attacked demonstrators, bystanders and media representatives at a civic-center peace march...
...gorging. This glutton of the mind is an intellectual mercenary. He will retract theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian hero-heel, a seemingly intrepid liberator of mankind who is cringingly adept at saving his own skin, a born false Messiah. Brecht rather ingenuously indicts Galileo for not ushering in a sempiternal age of reason and for recanting before the agents...
...should surprise no one. The whole Ecumenical movement has never resulted in any substantial changes, only in talk about changes. The rulings that the Mass may be sung in English, that it isn't a sin to eat meat on Friday, and that the Jews didn't kill Christ after all, are hardly of major importance. On all the significant issues-birth control, divorce, abortion, censorship -the church hasn't budged an inch...
...Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity." (Richard Lawrence, for instance, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, thought that he was Richard III of England and that the U.S. owed him huge sums of money.) Careful typing might permit psychiatrists to help-or security men to keep checking on-potential assassins. New laws requiring waiting periods before guns could be purchased, the experts said, might...