Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rather, we might imagine, to supplement the right-to-left line for political stances, a linearly independent vector for romanticism. Left-romantics want to change people because they despair that systems can be changed or because they believe that systems will change to fit the change of people's needs. Left-unromantics (pragmatists?) want to change the system to change the man (or perhaps for more abstract reasons, justice, etc.). George Orwell, in his essay on Charles Dickens, recognized the trends, saying, "They appeal to different individuals, and they probably have a tendency to alternate in terms of time...
...recent months, the nature of the arcane arsenal's components has gradually been revealed. In the chemical-warfare category, one of the most lethal gases is Sarin (GB), which in heavy vapor doses attacks the victim's nervous system and reduces him to a convulsive mass before death occurs. Fifteen years ago, the commanding officer of the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal estimated that a single drop of the nerve gas in liquid form on the back of a man's hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army...
Married. Pamela Lee Agnew, 25, eldest daughter of Vice President Spiro Agnew; and Robert E. DeHaven, 25, teacher in the Maryland school system; in a Presbyterian ceremony attended by 350 guests (among them, President and Mrs. Nixon); in Towson...
...cross section of inmates in Maryland prisons. They were paid $3 per day as "consultants" and allowed to dress in sport clothes like the other participants. Savvy and blunt, they provided another bit of vivid evidence that in most prisons society is wasting time and money on a system that is self-righteous, vindictive and ultimately ineffective (TIME Essay, March...
...judges were outraged, as were other conference participants who similarly masqueraded in the Maryland pris on system. Echoing what a lonely band of prison reformers has argued for years, one judge complained, "Calling this place a house of correction is damn nonsense." Added another: "People in institutions are living in a jungle. If something is not done, we are going to be living in a jungle on the outside...