Word: harness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only twist added to the familiar punishment v. deterrence arguments came in the scathing amendment proposed by death-penalty foe Senator Har old Hughes-that executions be broadcast on radio and television. "If Senators believe there is a deterrent effect inherent in the death penalty," Hughes reasoned mordantly, "then my amendment will provide a way to greatly increase this deterrence." Hughes' amendment was defeated...
...turn chooses a Corn Maiden to preside with him over these rituals. For the seven years of his reign the Harvest Lord is honored with gifts, free labor, respect. After that, well, it's sheer happenstance, of course, but there don't seem to be any former Har vest Lords around, only an extra ordinary number of placid widows...
...decided to save the patch - and so last week did the town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby Coon, Jimmy Skunk and, of course, Peter Rabbit...
...greatest national trauma since the Civil War, the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, has yet to be exorcised in drama or fiction. One early attempt is Sticks and Bones. Last year's Tony Award winner on Broadway, it is a har rowing play that probes the country's unaccepted guilt and pain...
Through the long argument Har rington's greatest strength is also his greatest weakness: that shining sense of moral purpose. Even when outlining the welfare reforms and the redistribution of wealth that he believes are needed forthwith, he never lets go of his knowledge that socialism is ultimately concerned with the transformation of the relations of men to themselves and their fellows, and that this transformation will never be brought about simply by radical equalization of incomes and democratization of social controls. Socialism, Harrington learned from Marx, is not possible until there is true abundance for everyone, everywhere - until...