Word: psychee
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Despite all of its innovative programs, the California Youth Authority operates on the same core assumptions that are the foundation of the philosophy of the "treat 'em rough" school: that the individual offender exclusively bears the guilt for his crime and that the sole goal of the state's incarceration...
The My Lai massacre became part of our national psyche by a number of coincidences: that one honest man--Ron Ridenhour--was troubled enough by reports of what had happened there to write letters and make speeches calling for an investigation: that a courageous and unbelievably persistent reporter--Seymour Hersh...
Needless to say, there are all sorts of potential ambushes. Already febrile, Tony is sent to a strife-torn African country, representing Britain there "as a hole might represent a bucket." During an interview with an imprisoned black hero, Tony mouths bromides about using prisons as universities. At a subsequent...
It is not ironic that radio should have prospered so wildly in Depression years. The big companies which bought network advertising had much to gain by announcing that they'd weathered the storm; the advertising industry itself boomed resultingly; and there was little that seemed more necessary to the psyche...
He finds that the city's psyche took form in the 1880s, when the first waves of midwestern farmers arrived by the trainload. What they sought in L.A. was not urbanity but a continuation of their dispersed, self-reliant way of life. Thus, Banham says, "Los Angeles is the...