Word: lawman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played the two male leads in The Lawman...
Others have even more radical ideas. University of Chicago Sociologist Jerome Skolnick argues that the rigid military model for police is out of date, suggests that civilian clothes with mere badges would bring policemen closer to their fellow citizens. According to Arnold Sagalyn, formerly a top Treasury Department lawman, police should quit being lonely adversaries and help tackle urban problems-thus preventing a good many crimes that now plague police. Berkeley Psychiatrist Bernard Diamond argues that police forces should also stop recruiting primarily tough men who can "shoot it out." As he sees it, the right model is a potential...
...down a headquarters hall or a ghetto sidewalk, his gait halfway between a lope and a swagger, Tom Reddin looks every inch the Compleat Policeman. If his huge hands, barrel chest and easy Irish smile do not betray his occupation, his glib, salty speech is unmistakably that of the lawman...
...Lawman. Well aware that he sometimes comes over as a hyperthyroid hippie, Kennedy trimmed both his tresses and his rhetoric to please the Hoosiers. He made vaguely conservative sounds about big, distant government. He never stopped saying that the U.S. must cure the causes of racial unrest, but he stressed the need for peace in the streets. "Violence won't get you better housing or better jobs or better education for your children," he told Negroes. He reminded white listeners: "I was the chief law-enforcement officer of the U.S. for 3½ years. This nation must have...
While Sheraf Stewart is off tending to his wife, who seems to be in the throes of a breech delivery, the Fonda gang revenge themselves by hanging the half-wit from a rafter. Gentle James the lawman then takes them all on, High Noon style, in the now classic sneak-shoot through the silent town while frightened eyes peer from behind shuttered windows...