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Word: suspectibility (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CRIMINALS SHOULD BE CURED, NOT CAGED | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Petition to Kill Subversive Control Board | 3/23/1968 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Insane Then, Doesn't Mean Insane Now | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Barrington Moore, lecturer on Sociology, added, "I suspect the practical reason we don't have Marxists here is that they can't get visas...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: How Many Marxists on Faculty? SFAC Debates Course Diversity | 3/13/1968 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Scene Smothering | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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