Word: misdemeanor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Critical Misdemeanor. Mailer's major foe is Kate Millett, whose book Sexual Politics devotes some 25 pages to mauling him, and helped prompt the Harper's riposte. Kate loses many a battle with Mailer in the article before she winds up winning the war. "By any major literary perspective." says a scornful Mailer, "the land of Millett is a barren and mediocre terrain, its flora reminiscent of a Ph.D. tract, its roads a narrow argument, and its horizon low." Kate is "nothing if not a pug-nosed wit," and "the yaws of her distortion were nicely hidden...
...pacification of students easier. One bill, the Ohio Campus Disorders Act, requires that an outside referee be appointed by the Regents of every State University with the advice of the local Bar Association. This referee would hear disciplinary cases of students arrested for-not convicted of-any felony or misdemeanor. He has the unrestricted right to expel or suspend students brought before...
Though a number of schools will make individual exceptions for maternity leave, most expect women to meet the same requirements as men within the same time period. The result is that they are often forced to choose between family life and a career. Other institutions regard maternity as a misdemeanor and require new mothers to return to class within two to ten days after childbirth. The alternative is to withdraw for a semester...
...reduces the possession or use of narcotics from a felony to a misdemeanor and allows for probation, parole, or dismissal of charges at the discretion of a judge, Maximum penalty cannot exceed one year's imprisonment on the first offense...
...know to have been convicted of any criminal offense after that date "which under the laws of the United States or of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would constitute a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or a felony...