Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest by the drivers against their biggest occupational hazard: violent crime. Reported holdups of New York cab drivers number more than 600 a year, and 14 cabbies have been murdered in the last seven years. Says Joe Paradise, an official of the local cab drivers' union: "We are sick and tired because we are the forgotten men. Cabbies get killed, mugged, beaten up, but there is no action-it's like he don't belong to nobody...
Donald Conn, the state's prosecuting attorney (and coincidentally, a classmate of Bailey's at Boston University Law School), admitted that DeSalvo unquestionably was a sick man, but he and the prosecution psychiatrists launched a strong rebuttal to the defense contention that DeSalvo was "a completely uncontrollable vegetable walking around in a human body." The traditional Massachusetts rule for legal insanity holds that a defendant is sane unless he is unable to tell right from wrong or is governed by irresistible impulse. Both sides conceded that De-Salvo knew that what he was doing was wrong...
...Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen asked men and women to be honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...This is sick stuff, and it certainly overshadows the (few) areas in which Buckley has something constructive to offer. Buckley's conservatism seems more a hobby than a conviction. His description of Lindsay as "pompous" serves only to highlight his own incontrovertible pomposity--a quality somehow jarring in a Goldwaterite. And one winds up wondering if Buckley is in fact a conservative at all, or merely a circus impressario who missed his calling...
...hilarious experience," he recalls. "The Germans and we were bribing the same Portuguese and sleeping with the same girls." Though he was decorated for his activities, he lost all taste for espionage. "In war it is permissible," he says. "But in peacetime it's a sick trade, a surefire road to mental aberration...