Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pieces of his mind in this latest work, and some of them are more palatable than others. For here, as elsewhere in his work, the author's determined rationality sometimes becomes oppressive; his assertions of the intellectual clarity of his own position antagonize even sympathetic readers, and create the suspicion that in his quest for a concise and unified point of view the author has sometimes ignored important considerations...
...Though many U.S. prisons have educational programs, probably none has met with more enthusiasm than the school at Kansas State Penitentiary. At first, the men looked at Gragert with deep suspicion. But with only one civilian assistant to help him, Gragert managed to find 25 inmates willing and able to serve on his faculty. Though their crimes ranged from theft to murder and only one had ever taught before, the professors quickly took hold. Gradually, Gragert's campus spread to 18 rooms, his enrollment to 284. By last week one out of every five prisoners was getting an education...
...next evening he was arrested and "positively identified" by two of the insurance company's employees as the man who months earlier had robbed the office at gunpoint of $271. An innocent victim of mistaken identity, Balestrero was booked, fingerprinted, spent a night in jail, had to face suspicion and publicity, raise $5,000 bond, and defend himself as justice took its ponderous course. His wife cracked under the strain, and was placed in an institution. Even so, Balestrero was lucky. Between a mistrial and preparations for retrial, the real thief was caught, and confessed to the crime...
...starting." The explanation was little comfort to some U.S. officials: it was just possible, they felt, that Makar had taken to his Communist hosts data on new American missiles tested at White Sands. Most likely, he was merely a tragic neurotic befuddled by his scientific obsession. But the haunting suspicion remained: Could he be another Klaus Fuchs...
Walter Kerr, drama critic on the New York Herald Tribune, has heard many such snap judgments. U.S. Roman Catholics, says Catholic Kerr in a sharp little book called Criticism and Censorship (Bruce; $2.75), are wide-open to the suspicion of being too Index-minded or too censorship-conscious. He writes: "It sometimes seems as though the struggle over censorship were a struggle between Catholicism and the rest of America...