Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal taboos against marijuana continue to crumble. Last week California state legislators voted to do away with formal booking procedures, jail penalties and permanent criminal records in cases of pot possession. Though possession remains a criminal misdemeanor, offenders will suffer none of the stigmas of a criminal arrest. The week before, the lawmakers of both Maine and Colorado had drastically decreased the penalty for possession of small amounts of the weed by setting modest civil fines as the sole punishment. Oregon and Alaska (TIME, June 9) had already decriminalized the private use of pot. In all five states, however...
Furthermore, it is unlikely that the U.S. will again suffer the two major blows that so severely aggravated inflation in 1973 and 1974: the quintupling of oil prices and the sharp rise in food costs caused by unusually bad weather round the world. This year's U.S. harvest appears to be big. As for oil prices, they will almost certainly rise again in September, despite Ford's warning to the OPEC cartel last week that another increase would be "very disruptive and totally unacceptable." But the rise, while harmful, will be nowhere near as great...
...behavior modification in efforts at rehabilitation. All in themselves can be effective, but one element is critical to their sucess: the capacity to volunteer for them. In today's prison that is all but nonexistent. A prisoner who refuses to enter a rehabilitative program almost always has to suffer either a longer term or significantly poorer living conditions because of his refusal. "Everybody I know gets rehabilitated the moment he gets caught," sniffs a California...
...Korea and elsewhere in the 1960s and early 1970s. (Nearly half the 2nd Division's G.l.s are black and other minorities.) Morale also seems high in most places. A young lieutenant compared his life at Camp Casey with that at a "jock college." Closer to the DMZ, soldiers suffer from isolation, primitive facilities (hot baths once a week) and sheer boredom. It is at these bleak forward outposts that the U.S. would suffer its first casualties if North Korea were ever to launch a major attack. Thus, for the G.l.s based there, the boredom of a seemingly interminable truce...
Twelfth Night. Every so often an actor retires a role the way a sports champion retires a trophy. He does not, of course, get permanent possession of the part, but he does get a lasting grip on playgoers' memories and critics' yardsticks. His successors must always suffer the ordeal of comparison. Even long-dead actors exert their possessive prerogatives. Praise a present Hamlet and some oldtimer will tell you that "Barrymore was the greatest." In Twelfth Night, Brian Bedford retkes the Malvolio...