Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiseman's interest in the law is largely sociological; he has been studying the relationship between psychiatry and the legal process, and is writing a book that explores case histories that demonstrate the law's inadequacy in assessing and dealing with the plea of insanity in criminal cases. It was the inadequacy of sociology that interested him in The Cool World. He felt that the Warren Miller novel from which the movie is taken, gave a far more realistic picture of the way in which the social structure of Harlem and its relationship with the outside world give rise...
...papal plea looked toward the forthcoming meeting of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council, for which some 2,300 clerics and theologians will flock to Rome, many for their first view of the city. Urged Pope John, in a 4,500-word letter to Romans: Pray for "mortification of lust, aversion to mundane pomp and detachment from excessive avidity of riches . . . We like to call Rome a Holy City. God forbid it become a city of perversion...
...Michael Naritsa, 53, who suffered exile and imprisonment under Stalin, began asking for trouble again in 1960 when he smuggled his latest novel, The Unsung Song, out of the country by unorthodox means: unable to contact a foreign publisher, he bundled up his manuscript, attached to it a labeled plea in four languages (see cut}, and thrust it into the hands of two surprised West German tourists who were strolling down a Leningrad street. The tourists got it published abroad, and Naritsa got a visitation from the agents of the Committee of State Security (KGB); today he is under...
...necking sessions. The second (and last) act plunks a few blank cartridges into Madison Avenue, the most oversimplified U.S. symbol of evil since George F. Babbitt. To compound the sense of the archaic, the hero tumbles onstage with a planeload of European fellow immigrants to raise an Ellis-Islandish plea of ''melt us" before audiences that would rather be caught naked than stewing in the common pot of conformism...
...Italian Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi (TIME, Feb. 2), who urged that Curia officials step down after reaching a mandatory retirement age, deplored the splendiferous costumes of cardinals and bishops, recommended that Curia officials be chosen from the best men available in the world, rather than in Italy. Lombardi's plea was bluntly censured by L'Osservatore Romano, in an article reportedly written by Archbishop Felici. But the winds of change have been felt in the broad, quiet Vatican halls, and reform of the cardinalate and the Curia may come from Pope John's successor...