Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local issues. Nationally, a notable failure involved the school prayer amendment, which again died in Congress, even though Sponsor Everett Dirksen could point to petitions signed by some 500,000 people. While Dirksen professes to take the "wagonloads" of such documents seriously, most Washington legislators are wary of them, suspect that many people do not know what they are signing...
...Guff. The upheavals in San Francisco and St. Louis were both kindled by the same spark: the shooting of a Negro by white police. In St. Louis, youthful Negroes on the western edges of the downtown district demonstrated for six nights after an armed-robbery suspect was shot to death, breaking the windows of autos and buildings, pitching stones and bottles at policemen, stoning firemen who replied to false alarms-and all the while shouting "Black power...
...suspect that the subtitles we are given (which quite properly reproduce Shakespeare rather than re-translating Pasternak) are in many cases non-literal. If they are literal, the staging of this film is preposterous beyond belief. As Polonius delivers his parting advice to Laertes, and as we read his banal, senile lines, what we see is a purposeful, vigorous man hustling his son to the door in no uncertain manner. When Hamlet first plays mad for Polonius, his final "Except my life," appears to be addressed to the old man's parting back. It just doesn...
...most crimes be reduced, and that programs which help the poor to pay this money be expanded. Studies by the foundation indicate, according to one staff member, that "bail is not a necessary part of the process--he'll show up for trial without it" and that if the suspect cannot obtain bail money "something about jail seems to increase his chances of being found guilty...
Even more important, if we should discover -- as I suspect to be the case -- that a high proportion of the victims of unreported crime are poor people, we would begin to get a picture of an economic burden not touched by our present criminal enforcement machinery and falling primarily on those already living on the fringes of desperation. And, particularly if we were to look into the reasons these people do not report their victimization, we might also be better able to understand the deep disrespect of many citizens toward our system...