Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What should a man do when he thinks the police are arresting him without cause? To Newark Bartender Kurt Koonce the answer was obvious: Resist. After all, the cops were claiming that he had sold liquor to a minor-and they had not seen the alleged sale. How could they make the rap stick...
Mother and son appealed on the grounds that every citizen has a common-law right to resist false arrest. A policeman, they argued, may make an arrest for a misdemeanor only if he has a warrant or if the offense is committed in his presence. In this case, the cops had neither excuse. And New Jersey's second highest court has just reversed the Koonces' convictions. In so doing, though, it barred all further resistance to false arrest in New Jersey. Historically, the court noted, the right arose in a day when arrest was well worth fighting...
...court pointed out, the situation is now reversed. While jail is far less harrowing, every U.S. policeman packs a gun and is duty-bound not to be cowed by a suspect's resistance. "Self-help," said the court, "is antisocial in an urbanized society." It just about guarantees "escalation into bloodshed" -and is unnecessary at a time when the rights of the accused are being constantly expanded. As a result: "We declare it to be the law of this state that a private citizen may not use force to resist arrest by one he knows or has good reason...
...that Rorem did not produce a singable and at times memorable score. But the materials of the play resist transmogrification into that elusive amalgam of drama and music that is successful opera. Rorem's struggle, in fact, is a classic example of the peculiar agony that creating an opera can be. When he got the Ford Foundation's grant four years ago, he first tried a setting of DuBose Heyward's novel Mamba's Daughters, was deep into it when the project had to be scuttled be cause of copyright problems. Then he tackled an original...
Dead men tell surprising tales. If the victim is hanged after death, the blood vessels in the neck show a special pattern of rupture. If the victim is set on fire after death, the tendons, which are destroyed quite readily when a man is burned alive, for unknown reasons resist incineration. If the victim is thrown into water after death, the water will not reach the heart and there deposit algae, as it does whenever a man is actually drowned...