Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal authority (often backed with fists) rather than by their arrest power. The watchman-style patrolman judges offenses by the prevailing standards of the immediate community. He might ignore a small theft in a ghetto neighborhood, but investigate the same theft in a prosperous white area. Only in more serious offenses would he crack down, perhaps breaking a few more heads in a street brawl than would a policeman with a different style. An officer of the Albany police force described his watchman style...
...problem is that Saville took Christopher Plummer along on the trip. Plummer is simply not up to Oedipus. For one thing, he has a bad habit of punctuating his lines with portentous pauses that have no connection with either sense or cadence. A more serious failure is his foothills approach to the part-he neither climbs high enough at the beginning nor falls low enough at the end. Plummer as King of Thebes is arrogant rather than hubristic; his fate seems more like a matter of just deserts than a result of the awesome machinations of Apollo...
Fullback Bob Gray, who suffered a hard collision in Wednesday's game with Wesleyan, appears not to have sustained any serious head injury and has, according to coach Bruce Munro, "only a real bad headache." Gray will remain in Faulkner Hospital another day for observation before being moved to the Stillman Infirmary. He may be ready for action by next week...
Warren also said that Columbia would make no plea for leniency for 600 other students arrested on charges more serious than trespassing...
...official power could be given to this committee, according to Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, since the final say on all financial matters rests with the trustees of the College Council. However, she did say that the committee's findings would be given serious consideration by the Council...