Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, in 1954, in the case of a Washington, D.C., housebreaker, Monte Durham, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals declared that a person is not criminally responsible if his "unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect." This was a great deal broader than M'Naghten, said Kaufman, but it created new problems. Deciding whether an act is the "product" of a disease is difficult, perhaps impossible. Moreover, such terms as "mental disease and mental defect" give expert psychiatric witnesses a blank check. "It seems clear that a test which permits all to stand...
...that it was not only a giant step forward from M'Naghten but also a viable solution to the problems in Durham. Instead of "knowing" the difference between right and wrong, the defendant is now subject to the subtler requirement of "appreciating" it. Similarly, proving the act a "product" of the disease now becomes the more reasonable task of showing that the disease resulted in a loss of "substantial capacity" to obey the law. "We do not delude ourselves in the belief that the American Law Institute test is perfect," concluded Kaufman. But "the impossibility of guaranteeing that...
TIME'S discussion of clerical celibacy [Feb. 18] has done a great service by bringing into the open a festering sore in the structure of the church. Celibacy as a sine qua non for the priesthood of the Latin Rite is a product neither of the demands of faith nor of the conclusions of sound theology. The stress on celibacy in Western Catholicism at times borders on the irrational. The Oriental Church has realized the error of identifying a vocation to the priesthood with a vocation to the celibate life...
...Commons. Object of the plan was to reduce Britain's "overstretch" by trimming the strength of its armed forces abroad by one-third and cutting expenditures by one-sixth to $5.6 billion annually-a figure that would then represent about 6% of Britain's gross national product...
There were, of course, a number of firms in the city which sold just the machine needed. Money was no object; there wasn't any. So maybe we could borrow a bulldozer and advertise some company's product. We thought it was a good idea. Most of the firms didn...