Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wicker praised Jackson as "a talented writer, a sensitive man, a potential leader and political thinker of great persuasiveness." He lamented the "wanton destruction of humanity" by a system that had jailed Jackson for one year to life for a $70 robbery at age 19 and kept him in prison for nearly twelve years until his death. "For once," wrote Wicker, "this predominantly white society ought not passively to accept the usual assumption that authority is blameless and truthful, and those who defy it are fools or depraved, especially if black...
...stuck to his guns on "how senselessly and brutally society reacted at every turn to Jackson's early transgressions; moreover, it is still doing so, every day, in other cases, and turning thousands of young offenders into hardened criminals. If that is not 'wanton destruction of humanity,' what...
...greater tragedy, of course, is that the wanton shooting of police inevitably leads to more violence and even reprisals. Already New York and Washington police have beefed up their patrols in potentially dangerous areas. If the attacks continue, it is the innocent who stand to suffer for the crackdown provoked by the fanatic...
Harvard's liability for the drowning deaths of two children last Saturday at a University-owned pond in Jamaica Plain appears slight. unless a case can be built charging Harvard with gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct in not dealing with known hazards of the land...
Massachusetts laws governing this final instance-in which the drowning victims probably fall-establish liability only in the sense that the landowner must not display gross negligence her deal with trespassers in a wanton and willful manner...