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Even humane prison officials are still generally paying mere lip service to "individualized treatment"-the new ideal of curing each prisoner's hang-ups and converting society's misfits to crime-free lives. In progressive prisons, to be sure, guards are taught to break up the inmate culture by friendly communication; inmates are classified in graded groups, promoted for good conduct and hustled toward pa role. Indeed, the average stay today is 21 months; the average lifer exits in 20 years...
...both music and text Carmina Burana is about the body, and it rarely even pays lip service to the soul. Under Forbes' vigorous direction, chorus and orchestra turned every available muscle to the task and produced violently contrasting dynamics and bruising rhythmic drive. The choir commanded a seemingly inexhaustable supply of volume which swept in wave upon wave, a high powered form of the "Bolero" crescendo. The attacks of the chorus and orchestra were explosive and for the most part precise...
...such relatively minor responsibilities as running small-claims and traffic courts. But if the reformers can decide which or how many of the proposed changes are worthwhile, and can get them implemented, they will have worked a minor miracle. Until now, few problems in the law have received more lip service and less real attention than the problem of congested courts...
...cooperation of editors could have prevented this crisis in relations between the press and the judiciary, but while almost all media representatives pay lip service to voluntary censorship of criminal news, only a minority have exercised the needed restraint. The ABA's cautious restrictions on the freedom of the press are probably necessary...
...Crybaby. Something had to give. When Recruit Douglas Ratliff punched him in the jaw during a judo class, Johnson, who ranked first in physical fitness, struck back. No one broke up the scuffle until Johnson decked Ratliff, who took three stitches for a cut lip. Ratliff was asked to resign for breaking a strict no-fighting rule. Blasher was forced out because of his "attitude"-though he was first in the class scholastically. Impulsively, Johnson resigned in protest, charging that Blasher had been bounced because of his friendship for him. Blasher, who had spent a year on the Los Angeles...