Word: punished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mengele has found his way into contemporary literature. In Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy, he was the model for The Doctor who taunted God to punish him for his killings at Auschwitz. He is the inspiration for the drill-wielding Nazi named Szell in William Goldman's Marathon Man, and the mad doctor who sought to re-create a batch of little Hitlers in Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil...
...should be a restoration of modesty in dress and elimination from the community of sexual-gratification businesses," declared Dane County Judge Archie Simonson, 52. "Whether women like it or not they are sex objects. Are we supposed to take an impressionable person 15 or 16 years of age and punish that person severely because they react to it normally?" Voicing such sentiments, Judge Simonson let a convicted 15-year-old Madison, Wis., defendant off last May with a wrist-tapping probated sentence in the rape of a 16-year-old coed in a high z school stairwell. As a result...
Earnings Heartache. In an angry mood, Judge Leff said, "The real danger is the cynicism that is engendered when, at the level at which this kind of fraud takes place, the general public believes that ultimately there isn't any effective sanction which will punish or which will be feared by these corporate thieves." Nonetheless, the appellate court agreed to give Dolkart yet another stay, pending an appeal of his sentence...
...member of Dukakis' own welfare advisory council derides it as "a foolhardy adventure, conceived in haste, doomed to failure and meant to punish the poor." But workfare seems assured of political popularity in a state that still prides itself on its Puritan work ethic...
Attitudes on sex and marriage are changing. New women's groups are agitating for the legalization of divorce (favored by six out of ten Spaniards) and for abolition of harsh old laws that punish adultery with fines and imprisonment?for women only...