Word: lawlessness
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...liberating drama when he said that in a good play everyone must seem in the right. For the two killers this is impossible, less because of how hideous their crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case-and its causes -remain too special to expand into identifiable bedevilment in man's fate...
...suggest that the name of Little Rock, Ark. be changed. They must have a very Big Rock there for all the Protestants, Catholics, Jews and unaffiliated law-abiding citizens to hide under while Godless, lawless hoodlums take charge...
Esprit de Corps. In Brentwood, England, a British army officer, testifying on behalf of two of his men charged with car theft, conceded that they were inclined to be lawless, slovenly, irresponsible and lazy, but assured the court that they had "good army character...
Blood, vengeance and silence is the ancient law of the lawless Mafia through out Sicily and southern Italy. One day last week, a witness in court broke the Mafia's law. For the benefit of seven solemn judges sitting in an old stone courthouse overlooking the blue Tyrrhenian Sea, an ignorant peasant of Calabria and a former member of the organization told all that he knew. "I know they have sworn to kill me," he cried, "but I don't care. Justice will punish me for what I have done, and justice will punish them as well...
...which has admitted Negroes to membership for several years, but has not yet allowed a Negro to vote, urged at its annual meeting an end of resistance to racial integration. The convention called on police and the courts to protect the Negro, "irrespective of his position or culture, from lawless attacks upon his person or property...