Word: warden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conspiracy to defraud the Government, and Tammany Leader, Carmine DeSapio, who went to Lewisburg last year for two years on three counts of bribery, as well as a former Army colonel, several businessmen and a Ph.D. Recalls Hoffa: "We were very active. We'd write memos to the warden, memos to the captain, lodge protests, take up grievances, get briefs filed. One kid came up and told me the guard was going to take away his lawbooks. Can you imagine that? I asked the guard what was going on. He said, 'They...
...SENTENCING publisher Ralph Ginzburg to three years in prison February 17, a Federal court in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania effectively denied constitutional protection for the freedom of speech. Convicting Ginzburg of violating an 1872 law forbidding the mailing of obscene material, the court sent Ginzburg to a prison whose warden has described conditions as "badly overcrowded," and whose inmates are on strike to protest the onerous conditions...
...Quentin belongs in American folklore as the kind of place where George Raft and a thousand other cons would pound their tin cups to scare the screws, a Cagneyesque sort of stir with even a certain nostalgic romance about it. Its reality, of course, has always been bleaker. Before Warden Clinton Duffy took over in 1940 and turned "Q" for a time into a model for penal reform, the vast sand-colored fortress on San Francisco Bay offered sadistic guards, shaved heads, the airless "hole" for solitary, dinner out of buckets and a gallows painted baby blue. But then...
...Making It had just concluded when an inmate leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within minutes he and the guards were overpowered. The riot...
...false prosody: "3 lines Too tum-pum at a stretch," one scribble reads. With the notation "1880," Pound skewered an anachronism in which Eliot called for "a closed carriage" in 1922; the carriage promptly became a "closed car at four." W.H. Auden once observed that Eliot was part church warden, part twelve-year-old boy. Pound was on the side of the boy. His objections to Eliot's frequent use of "may" and "perhaps" ("Perhaps be damned") rise to pique when Eliot's narrator of the moment, the blind seer Tiresias, who by definition knows the past...