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...vote of the Corporation." She said it very politely, about seventeen times. Now after all, madam, the Corporation isn't God. It's a business. And most businesses grant that you aren't necessarily delinquent if you pay your bill late, so they make their penal codes flexible. Oh, can we not look to our own Corporation for equal generosity...
...senseless, he said; moral laws are unchangeable. The book may do harm Father Gardiner thought, because "indiscriminate knowledge improperly acquired and applied is an incentive to a lack of virtue. . . ." It would be far better, said he, if the Kinsey report were in the hand: only of doctors, penal authorities, judges social workers, the clergy...
...spectators were plainly appalled when the judge passed sentence [ten years' penal servitude] on Dr. Alan Nunn May, though none of them was his follower. ... It was the light about the man's head which made the thought of his imprisonment intolerable: the changing and complicated intellectual patterns proceeding from his brow and spelling out a meaning which men required...
...saying that Curley suffered from nine dangerous afflictions, and Curley's dramatic pleas for clemency, Judge Proctor was unmoved. Said he: "I think the defendant should be committed today." Said Curley: "You are sentencing me to death. There should be some less punishment than that." Said the Judge: "Penal institutions are staffed and equipped to care for prisoners in ill health...
...Stragglers. Most of the men who enlisted, says the author, came straggling in from lagiers (penal work camps) and prisons all over the U.S.S.R.-lousy, hungry, destitute. They were incredulous: "Who ever heard, in the Soviet Union, of amnesties which really resulted in anybody being...