Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music business, having scraped the hillbilly barrel and blown the froth off the mambo craze, has taken over r. and b., known to the teen-age public as "cat music" or "rock 'n' roll.''* The commercial product, whether by Negroes or whites, only superficially resembles its prototype. It has a clanking, socked-out beat, a braying, honking saxophone, a belted vocal, and, too often, suggestive lyrics (spelled "leer-ics" by trade-sheet Variety, which has launched a campaign to clean them up). Result: a welter of hits in the r.-and-b. idiom (including five...
...rise in our own circulation price, our paper sales were hurt. Sunday night, for instance, is very dead. Then, too, the policy of the paper changed. Originally, it was written for the man in the street, but it became a conservative Republican paper. I could only sell the product they printed." To Annenberg, who owns "substantial" stock in the Chicago Tribune-New York News company (valued at $42,000 a share), the matter was far from settled...
...brooding and reflection ... A broader test should be adopted." The proposed test, already known as the "Durham Rule": a jury must decide 1) whether an accused was suffering from "a diseased or defective mental condition" when he committed the crime, and 2) if so, whether the crime was the "product" of such abnormality...
Psychiatrists and lawyers see major difficulties in this ruling, e.g., how to define such terms as "disease," "defect," "product." Many fear that it would be too easy for criminals to take refuge in "mental disease." Actually, if properly administered, the Durham rule would not necessarily have such results; in many cases, the defense would have a hard time proving a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the mental illness and the crime. The Durham rule, by allowing freer psychiatric testimony, might also undermine many defense attempts based on "irresistible impulse." which in the past has been responsible for some highly...
...article on Kirkland House in Wednesday's CRIMSON seems to me a piece of unsuccessful journalism which violates the obligations of good reporting. It contains errors of fact concerning the physical condition of the courtyard (while neglecting the significant point that the planned restoration of the courtyard is the product of the joint devotion of House members and the present and future Masters): it presents assumptions concerning the master which are the reverse of reality; it is conceived and written in a spirit completely at variance with companion articles on the other Houses...