Word: sloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treated with crime, what is one to do with the vicious creatures whom the combination of slum environment, bootlegging, and a certain indigenous American lawlessness have bred in teeming swarms? The first step seems to be to bring the penitentiary system out of its almost medieval sloth, and to coordinate penology with science. Psychology and research have discovered that a prisoner's future record will depend but little on the crime he was incarcerated for, but more importantly on his home environment, his habits, and his character. Thus to herd in one ensemble first offenders, murderers, and speeders results merely...
...have been priests and prophets of abundant living. We have schooled our students to be clever competitors in the world as it is, when we should have been helping them to become creative cooperators in the making of the world as it is to be. ... From these sins of sloth may we be free. . . . May we be shepherds of the spirit as well as masters of the mind...
...these collective farms produced a greater export surplus than did the kulak farms in 1927; 3) Ergo, argued Stalin last week, the Government is no longer dependent upon the kulak and will proceed to destroy him as a class, confiscating his lands but allowing him to exchange the stultifying sloth of wealth for hard, invigorating work as a collectivist farm hand, perhaps on what was once his own estate...