Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ready to blame the S.L.A. for the transformation of Patty Hearst from socialite liberal to violent radical within a few short weeks, then society cannot escape its responsibility for the creation of the S.L.A. Not only do the deplorable social conditions that spawn this kind of group continue to exist, but now, I fear, it is only a matter of time until we will be humming The Ballad of Cinque over our morning coffee...
...week's end the British government announced that the Prices had ended their long fast after what appeared to be an eleventh-hour decision by Westminster to avert the risk of violent reprisals by the sisters' Irish Republican Army supporters. As soon as their health permits, the pair may be transferred from London's maximum-security Brixton Prison to jail in Northern Ireland...
...accustomed to a feeling of protection--economic security which implies physical security. The criminal threat to that security arose most furiously at a time when another important psychic power source--heat and light--was also being severed. Shivering and afraid, then, and stunned by the apparently senseless flurry of violent crimes blowing in with the winter, Harvard began to take action...
Part of this may have had to do with the cold weather, but the main reason was fear. October saw the beginning of a season when harvard students and employees were assaulted and robbed with increasing frequency. By mid-November, President Bok had formed the Committee to Study Violent Crimes, in response to statistics like these from the Harvard police: 16 instances of reported assault and battery and 7 incidents of armed robbery. The same period in the academic year 1972-73 had produced a fraction of this number...
...that decided not to grant clemency to Niccolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, prisoners and Harvard men have had their differences of opinion. A couple of years ago, there was controversy over a book called Violence and the Brain, in which several university-affiliated psychiatrists described psychosurgical approaches to limiting violent behavior that their critics compared to the out-of-favor prefrontal lobotomy. This year, the controversy centered around William J. Curran, Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at the School of Public Health...