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...heavy drugs, retreats ever deeper into her dark private world, until at film's end, standing lost and mute, she faces a class full of bored medical students. It is clear that Director Ken Loach (Kes) and Scenarist David Mercer (Morgan) intend their movie to be a plea for greater flexibility and experimentation in the treatment of mental disorders. Wednesday's Child is a vigorous indictment, but Loach and Mercer might have made their points even more forcefully if they had remained a little more dispassionate...
...speech ended with a plea for strong representation in the Legislature. "We don't want to send any bowl of jello over there, or any jelleyfish. The times are changing and we must change with the times...
...movement in the eyes of Republican women," says Kitty Clyde, a comely press aide to Anne Armstrong. De-radicalize? A phrase is born. A Roman Catholic mother of five with the clear-eyed look of a swimming instructor at a fashionable girls' camp, Jill made a determined plea for an abortion plank. It had no more chance with the Republicans than it did with the Democrats. But the plea's the thing. "You can't be abrasive and hostile in a convention like this," says Jill. "We had to come softly through the door to get women...
...overburdened" and likely to settle cases quickly by persuading defendants to plead guilty to reduced charges. The L.A.A., by contrast, has provided 30 defenders, "mostly young idealists," who fight hard and have taken nine cases all the way to the Supreme Court. L.A.A. lawyers have done their share of plea bargaining, but only 1% of L.A.A. misdemeanor defendants during the last quarter of 1970 went to jail, as opposed to 8.3% of the public defenders' clients. Hersey also cites the fact that in 1970 the L.A.A. spent an average of $107 per criminal case, while the public defenders spent...
...microcosm of what I believe to be a national choice of great urgency . . . Will the courts go forward in New Haven's present direction, preferring the use of public defenders who, working closely with prosecutors, stay abreast of clogged dockets by going in for more and more plea bargaining and less and less client-oriented service? Or will it be seen, eventually, that a defense of the poor fully as vigorous as that given to those who can afford private attorneys is the only way to win over the poor to belief in the rule...