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SEAN O'CASEY'S play, The Plough and the Stars, begins with a lock on a door. In a Dublin tenement, Fluther Good has just installed the new lock on the flat occupied by Nora and Jack Clitheroe. Nora's lock is resented by her neighbors, Bessie Burgess (upstairs) and Mrs. Gogan, the charwoman who lives below. But the newlywed Mrs. Clitheroe persists in her efforts to shut out the slum around her; when the play opens, in November 1915, she has almost created an island of grace and quiet in the middle of the dirt and violence. Nora...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Terrible Beauty Stillborn | 12/3/1976 | See Source »

Nora, however, cannot lock out the crescendo of revolution in the streets of Dublin outside her window, an uprising that would culminate in the Easter revolution of 1916. At the end of the play, having lost her husband and child to the violence of the revolt she was trying to shut out, Nora escapes the madhouse that Dublin has become by refusing to acknowledge it, by creating a fantasy world in which she imagines herself walking with her Jack in the country...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Terrible Beauty Stillborn | 12/3/1976 | See Source »

Wigglesworth, because it faces Mass Ave., is probably "the most victimized dorm," Kahn said. Pointing out open doors in a Wigglesworth entry, Kahn said that Wigglesworth residents still fail to lock their doors despite warnings from police...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Police Statistics Indicate Yard Highest Crime Area; Overall Crime Decreases | 12/1/1976 | See Source »

...manager, Clarence A. Martin '77-3, said he had visited the agency's warehouse in early October and found the door open and the lock apparently "pried open." He said he took no action at the time because he thought most of the refrigerators had already been delivered...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: HSA Official Now Calls Theft Likely | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH HE APPLAUDS such innovations as allowing juvenile delinquents to perform alternative service and improving social conditions in general, the main impact of Wilson's statements is directed towards putting more people in jail, earning him the nickname "Captain Lock 'em Up." In Thinking About Crime he suggests that ideally "every conviction for a non-trivial offense would entail a penalty that involved a deprivation of liberty." Wilson includes a wide latitude of programs in "deprivation"; with society's present options, however, most convicted criminals would end up in jail, not rehabilitation or treatment centers...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Wilson's New Freedom | 11/23/1976 | See Source »

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