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DEMANDS for reform after the trial were loud, political and, according to Caplan, inconclusive. The hope was somehow to reconcile that natural gut reaction which sees the act, the victim, the murderer and calls a spade a spade with the more informed need to preserve conceptions of human will, avoid the connection between illness and evil, and abstain from seeking the hypocritical solution of committing the sick to prisons that offer no treatment or hospitals that are no better than prisons. Discussion centered on two legal reforms: allowing for a verdict of guilty but insane; and restricting the scope...
...individual stands. The term rugged individualism was coined by Herbert Hoover only a decade before the onset of Big Government and of a war where victory depended on America's sense of belonging to the world. Behold two rugged individuals of popular culture, the Lone Ranger and Sam Spade, helping the weak and troubled, and keeping communities stable and intact by enforcing the law. How rugged...
Travel plans are made on both coasts and down in the Deep South. A book, Malcolm Cowley's The View from 80, prefatory spade work, makes its way by post between these points. "The new octogenarian feels as strong as ever when he is sitting back in a comfortable chair," the author observed. "In a moment he will rise and go for a ramble in the woods, taking a gun along, or a fishing rod, if it is spring. Then he creaks to his feet, bending forward to keep his balance, and realizes he will do nothing...
...increase geometrically with every poem, starting back in 1966 with the appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation was being sought: "Living roots awaken in my head./ But I've no spade to follow.../ Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./ I'll dig with...
...virtue of calling a spade a spade is that when it is traded in, accountants can still make sense of the books. The virtue of calling political values by their real names is that when social policy is to be made, citizens can make sense of the choices. That used to be the case in the debate about pornography. If Minneapolis is any indication of where that debate is heading, it will not be the case for long...