Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers who spring rich clients. So the defendants plead guilty without trial and are sentenced by judges who cannot tell how many years will suffice for "rehabilitation." The criminals are caged in prisons without job training, suffer sexual deprivation, and eventually are dumped back into a society that hates "convicts...
There are subtle ways too. The subway system in New York is in revolting condition. To improve its state would reduce the incentive of those who have to suffer it today to abide by a value-system which suggests that each man try to improve his own position until he need no longer use the subway. No business organizations will ever give money to the State of New York to improve the subway system and it is not politically feasible for State government officials, even if they wanted to, to allocate the sums of money needed out of their...
During a recent symposium at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, doctors predicted that one out of every eight football players in the U.S., from the pros down to high school, will suffer a more or less serious knee injury this season. With 1,000,000 players in the U.S., said the doctors, this means "something like 125,000 knee injuries, at least 40,000 of which will require corrective surgery...
MOVIES that include quotes from other movies generally run afoul when the excerpted film makes its showcase suffer by comparison. It happens even to good films. Vivian Kurz in Andrew Meyer's Match Girl watches a chunk of Vertigo on TV, and a sensible spectator gets irritated when Meyer decides to return to his own film. The same holds for Peter Bogdanovich's Targets: even the glimpse of Hawks' The Criminal Code Bogdanovich shows us is enough to persuade that it has Targets beat by a mile...
...texture. Last year French Cultural Minister André Malraux hired him out of retirement to lead the newly formed Orchestre de Paris, and though his health was failing, Munch was determined to be on the podium for the orchestra's first American tour this fall. "My heart may suffer," he said, "but music never...