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Word: murder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Professor on Ice | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...career of a famous trial lawyer is not always as predictably successful as Perry Mason's. Take the case of F. Lee Bailey. Lately his TV talk show was dropped, a New Jersey judge dismissed him as defense attorney in a murder trial because of "grossly unethical conduct," and filming of The Sam Sheppard Story, in which Bailey was to have played himself, was postponed. Now Albert DeSalvo, the self-proclaimed Boston Strangler, has replaced Bailey with a lawyer who was admitted to the Massachusetts bar less than a year ago. Shrugs the Great Defender: "If somebody else wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...politician, and no academic can take too much of that. There also has been a shift in student tactics, which are now designed to evoke a heavyhanded response from the university. Activists demand something they know in advance that the uni versity cannot yield, then scream bloody murder when it is not delivered. More and more, it is the confrontation and not the issues which are important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academe's Exhausted Executives | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...America. But Cleaver is not a man designed to appeal to classic American educational tastes. His criminal record dates to 1954, and includes charges of narcotics violations, assault, and rape. When his appointment was announced last Wednesday, Cleaver was beginning a trial in Oakland on three counts of attempted murder...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Busting Cleaver | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

...more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most youthful characteristics in both. Dali's frantic desire to shock the bourgeoisie (viz. the eyeslicing) works with Bunuel's iconoclasm (the Christ-parody). In 1929, Bunuel derided the "imbeciles" who looked for beauty in this "despairing, passionate call to murder"; but from an aesthetic as well as a historical perspective, it's still worth seeing...

Author: By David W. Boorstin, | Title: Freaks | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

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