Word: wanton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RUSTY CALLEY stands convicted of wanton slaughter, but in his private life he is an unlikely villain. He is not a monster, not a callous warrior, not the tattooed caricature of the professional killer who does target practice on weekends and keeps a rifle mounted in the rear window of a pickup truck. In the evening, casually attired in blue jeans or bellbottoms, he could be any young American...
...This fall the point of many lectures has been that thinking is not necessarily an ally of fascism." On the contrary, it is realized here and there that nonthinking and anti-intellectualism are the real allies of totalitarianism. The Kent and Jackson State killings on one hand, and the wanton bombings by urban guerrillas on the other, have instilled in students a profound fear of repression and violence. One of the few clear trends on all campuses is a rededication to a Gandhi-like philosophy of nonviolence. Yale's Brewster says: "It is much more clearly recognized that Weatherman beget...
...quickly. His life consists of "violent periods interspersed with short pauses spent in simple pleasures," but those pleasures include neither smoking nor drinking. Women? With his athlete's body and his eagle's profile, he is catnip to the ladies, but he spurns them -particularly those with wanton Western ways. He is a gentle man, except when provoked. "There is a time for diplomacy and there is a time for fighting," he says. "The time for diplomacy is long past. Violence must be answered with violence." He is Lieut. Mourad Saber, 32, Agent SM-15 of Algerian counterespionage...
...Jackson, the local police, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, and the authorities proceeded with coldblooded efficiency born of long practice, using well-established administrative practices to cover up the wanton murder of blacks. As soon as the troopers had stopped firing, the Scranton Commission reported, they calmly picked up and hid the shell casings lying on the ground. They then agreed on a story and stuck to it in their testimony before the Hinds County Grand Jury and their replies to FBI investigators. All of those interviewed denied shooting-a story so ridiculous that even the local grand jury, which found...
...letter-box be placed under the bulletin-board that has been raised for the weather-reports? Some persons have expressed a fear that our embryo Thomassens would exercise their boyish propensities for mischief on the letter-box instead of on the much-enduring drain; but public opinion against their wanton mischief would be much stronger if our own personal convenience were to be interfered with. To obtain this improvement, it would, we suppose, be necessary to present a petition to the Post-Office authorities, and we hope that the suggestion will soon be adopted...