Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outcast labels of slum dweller, minority-group member, school dropout, unsuccessful employee and law violator. Stripped of selfesteem, this loser compensates by hating and hurting life's winners. And the U.S. criminal-justice system all too often reinforces his contempt for society's values. If the suspect cannot afford a skilled lawyer, he is pressured to plead guilty without a trial. For the same crime, different judges hand out wildly disparate sentences...
...SACB--created by the McCarran Act in 1950--decides whether organizations are Communist-linked. Congress voted in January that unless the Attorney General brings at least one suspect organization before the SACB in 1968, the Board will have to dissolve permanently...
...court did rule that any such ac quitted defendants could be kept in custody until the hearing, since there is sufficient reason to suspect that they might be a danger to the community...
Barrington Moore, lecturer on Sociology, added, "I suspect the practical reason we don't have Marxists here is that they can't get visas...
...felt called upon to run at least one put-on, a bit of misogynic whimsy by Freelancer Pete Hamill urging the drafting of women. Hamill arrived at this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...