Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, higher standards for prison chaplains have been inspired by growing secular awareness that prisons are primarily intended to rehabilitate rather than merely punish; more than half of the states now require that chaplains undergo from six to 18 months of specialized pastoral training. For example, the Rev. Henry Taxis, chaplain to the Hennepin County Home for Boys in Minnesota, studied for nine months at a state hospital in Iowa, three months at Federal Detention Headquarters in New York, and six months at the Illinois State Training School for Boys. The chaplains learn fast that the techniques suitable...
...himself an American Zola, and set out to describe the ordinary lives of ordinary people in ordinary language. He stamped all over the parlor niceties of Victorian tradition and proclaimed in a booming voice that heroines are not often virgins heroes are not usually gentlemen. He did not necessarily punish the wicked. Indeed, in Dreiser's novels good and evil do not exist-there is only unheroic suffering and scrambling for success. In retrospect, his prose seems clotted, clumsy, pompous, prolix, humorless, flatulent and dull. An American Tragedy ran to 385,000 words ("250,000 of them unnecessary," snorted...
Although the Administrative Board of the College considers the possession for smoking of marijuana a serious offense it decided in this case not to punish those who had received the drug from the two distributors. As innocent victims they were merely reprimanded, according to F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '88, of Freshmen...
...glance at college newspapers of the past month shows that there is agitation on local political issues on nearly every campus. Reflecting the civil rights spirit, movements to ban fraternities or at least to punish them for racial and religious discrimination have sprung into being at many colleges. At Duke a faculty-student committee is supervising the ban; at Ohio State and the University of Michigan individual fraternities are fighting it out. At Michigan--perhaps in a last-ditch battle for existence--the fraternities themselves have entered the civil rights fray: the Panhellenic Council recently endorsed an Ann Arbor civil...
...overeat when other outlets for strong emotion are thwarted. I eat to punish myself. I eat to stop time, to avoid responsibility. I eat when I am unhappy. I eat when I am lonely. I eat when I am unloved...