Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left or right have found little social unrest to exploit. Says Irving Fetscher, a political scientist at the University of Frankfurt: "Those students who did try to win over the workers generally failed, and then they turned violent. Either you reshape your view of reality, or you try to punish reality for not conforming to your theories...
...very heart of the issue is the attitude of the thousands of people who concoct and enforce the Government rules. The best of the bureaucratic breed talk sincerely of transforming regulators from cops who are out to punish offenders to public servants who help citizens solve their problems. After all, it was partly a rejection of oppressive, expensive regulation by far-off authorities that led to the creation of this country 201 years...
Handle With Care brings on a bunch of them, including a bigamous truck driver whose two wives discover his double life and join forces to, in effect, punish him with kindness; a horny youth and a seemingly respectable woman who use their rigs for mutually masturbatory conversations; a radio priest and a radio fascist who employ the air waves to peddle their doctrines. In the classic manner of exploitation pictures, the movie moves fast and speaks bluntly. It does not linger long over anyone's sense of anomie or alienation, but the panel-cartoon style i. effective. It is enough...
PRISONS THAT MAKE no effort to rehabilitate exist only to punish, to strip away the prisoners' rights and dignity. But one of rehabilitation's main elements must be that the convict begins to identify, somehow, with the rest of society. When that society is represented by a prison administration that appears to be unresponsive, rehabilitation seems a distant ideal. Building more jails won't do much to relieve the basic problems at places like Walpole--all it can do is create more jobs for wardens and guards...
...Billionaire J Paul Getty who was persuaded to pay $2.8 million in ransom after kidnapers dispatched the boy's right ear to a Rome newspaper. In the Getty and Pianelli cases, as in most Italian kidnappings, the criminals have not been simply political fanatics out to punish the rich, but professional hoods -often Mafia members-seeking high profits...