Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the impressive consideraitions just stated, one must weigh--and in my opinion weigh more heavily--vice. Every attempt of the law to detect, prosecute, and punish wrong represents an expenditure not merely of time, effort, manpower, and money, but also a concession to the forces of coercion as distinguished from persuasion. Moreover, law enforcement in the area of what some regard as private morality and private consumption almost inevitably entails the use of despicable or, at any rate, unworthy enforcement measures. Informers, undercover operators, blackmailers, and often corrupt enforcement authorities have opportunities far more dangerous than in the suppression...
Down with Who's Who. Special military courts-martial have been set up all over the country to punish Greeks who offend against king, church or junta. In Athens a worker was sentenced to one year in prison for "behaving like a Teddy boy," a tradesman to six months for "disobedience to authorities." Mikis Theodorakis, the noted leftist musician who composed the score for the film Zorba the Greek, last week was sentenced in absentia to 5? months in prison for offending the honor of the royal family. An estimated 150 to 200 Greeks are already behind bars...
Democratic Tyrant. With his sitters, La Tour was the most democratic of tyrants. Portraits of the King's daughters were never finished-in order to punish them for failing to keep appointments. La Tour once threatened to walk out of his studio when the King tried to watch him sketching la Pompadour. "My talent," he proudly maintained, "belongs to me." Nowhere was it better displayed than in his self-portraits, in which the illusion of reality is so strong, marveled one 18th century critic, that "it seems as though nature had painted itself." One of the three that survive...
...Fortas and William J. Brennan-came a blistering objection written by Brennan: "We cannot permit fears of 'riots' and 'civil disobedience' generated by slogans like black power to divert our attention from what is here at stake-arming the state courts with the power to punish as a 'contempt' what they otherwise could not punish at all." Although the state is unlikely to seek extradition, King plans to go to jail in Alabama next month...
...requires a majority vote and assumes a preliminary judgement by the electorate; expulsion requires two thirds and seems intended to allow members to deal with a colleague who has acted wrongly once elected. The power of expulsion is lumped together in the Constitution with each chamber's right to "punish its members for disorderly behavior," suggesting that it is intended to protect the regular operation of each session of Congress rather than to impose any moral judgments. Hence the lack of specified grounds for expulsion...