Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four classic purposes of imprisonment have been: 1) to deter others from committing crime, 2) to protect society from the criminal, 3) to rehabilitate the criminal, and 4) to give him his "just deserts." Today the first three are not persuasive. The prospect of jail does not seem to be a very forbidding deterrent. Society is obviously not safer but more dangerous these days, even though America's prisons and jails burst with a population of 500,000 inmates. Nearly all rehabilitation programs are well-meaning exercises in futility. That leaves reason No. 4, just deserts-punishment, social retribution...
...sounder and more reliable system of justice than the confusing and ineffective process now operating. A society can be subverted by a system that appears to be not only inconsistent but almost whimsical in its workings. A huge sense of grievance festers. The injustice of the courts seems to mirror the injustice of the economic system. All the rules of society seem to have been changed. You work hard, but inflation destroys your gains; so much for the work ethic. You obey the law, but somehow you get hurt and criminals profit, unpunished...
...reports TIME Economic Correspondent George Taber, seems a strangely radical idea to come from Wallich, a Republican professor of economics whose pin-striped blue suits and slow, heavily technical speech make him seem the embodiment of fiscal traditionalism. But as a child in Berlin he lived through the insane German inflation of 1923-24. Once his mother gave him 105 billion marks to buy a ticket to a swimming pool that had cost 15 pfennig to enter not long before. But she miscalculated; by the time Wallich got to the pool, the price had risen to 150 billion marks...
...characters can find either happiness or justice, God ultimately passes his own judgment on their plight. Days of Heaven climaxes with a cleansing, Old Testament plague of locusts-a nighttime Apocalypse so damning that it makes the similar finale of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust seem tame by comparison...
...peace because they felt war to be their occupation." Fighting was supposed to be conducted according to the chivalric code, but actually it was a business, entered into for the purposes of seizing loot, capturing prisoners to ransom, securing bribes in return for mercy shown, and, it would seem, as an excuse to extract additional taxes. Yet the levying mechanism of the emerging nation-state was still not refined. In Paris, for example, heralds on horseback would announce yet another impost, then gallop for their lives. Violent revolts by commoners troubled both France and England...