Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ibsen's theme is universal. In American terms, it means that Ibsen would approve Sherwood Anderson's vision of the crabbed, tormented, camouflaged souls of Winesburg, Ohio, rather than the blithely idealized innocents of Thornton Wilder's Grovers Corners. In European terms, James Joyce perhaps came closest to Ibsen when he wrote, "Ireland is the old sow that eats its own farrow...
...strip search on entering, the frightening, unfamiliar vastness of the prison and the long incarceration stretching ahead, the new inmate is overwhelmed. On the theory that the first taste of prison may have at least as much curative effect as the full dose, a few states, including Indiana and Ohio, have quietly been practicing what they call "shock probation...
Those preliminary results parallel the experience of Ohio, the first state to try the shock-probation process. There, 4,014 prisoners have been released after serving only two or three months since the plan went into effect in 1966. Only 9% of them have had to go back to jail while the national recidivism rate is estimated as from...
...think anything is going on except that we've agreed with the advisory committee on some, but not all, of their recommendations," Calkins said, in a telephone interview from his Cleveland, Ohio office. "The differences are not terribly great...
Versailles, Ohio...