Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that they could then negate. They are the guys who could never get the best-looking girls, learn enough chords to play jazz, or escape being just average in a society of what he was doing to separate his work from his own life. Consequently, Sid ended up as sick as the society the band tried to protest in songs like "Bodies" and "Anarchy in the U.K." The punk movement is simply one of fashion--McNihilism compared to the serious, intellectual efforts of the Dadas. Ironically, it is this unintentional chic that may help the punk movement survive longer than...
...deter the actions of those who would normally use it. The convicted ill would only become mistreated, untreated prisoners. The small numbers and type of accused, it seems, must force the debate into less charted ground and away from simplistic solutions. The legal and medical discussion of just how sick sick is will continue...
What could be stopped, of course, is the ability of the sick to purchase firearms. Though John Hinckley was under psychiatric care and taking prescriptive drugs long before the shootings, he succeeded in buying guns on ten different occasions...
...older issue, but no less pressing in the wake of what has recently been characterized as a rash of "insane" political violence. A judicial system that judges the sick and arms the sane simultaneously, without thinking of the two together, may well be the most frightening of judicial delusions...
...interpretations of Weiss's recommendation. According to Brookline selectman Zvi Sesling, Weiss was saying that "Harvard can do something that nobody else can do--legally kill four people." According to Louis Horwitz, chairman of the seven-year-old Neighborhood Organizations Mobilized Against the Total Energy Plant (NOMATEP), "That's sick. I don't know of any country other than Nazi Germany that is able to put a price on human life." And according to Brookline lawyer Daniel G. Partan, "When stripped of its technicalities, the bold fact remains that we shouldn't let Harvard do what they want...