Word: penmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. Part melodrama, part morality play, this novel of life in a maximum security prison is a sharply written exercise in federal penmanship...
...Also called the Messiah, he is a vaguely evangelical figure with a jade ring and an MG, who keeps most of the inmates under his Freudian thumb. As the story flickers between Convict Desai and Counselor Sharon, it is clear that there are flaws in Psychologist Pryor's penmanship. For one thing, what is apparently "the best state-run maximum-security penitentiary in the United States" has a social organization based squarely on the proposition that in prison life all sexuality, unless otherwise perverted, is homosexual. Also, as in any authoritarian society, there is an underground. At S.S.P.C...
...diagnosis. But there are several ways of treating this disease, none 100% effective and all with some risk. The physician punches more buttons, lets the computer decide mathematically which treatment has the best chance of success with the least risk. Resorting at last to the historically illegible penmanship of his profession, he writes a prescription...
...When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
Bundeswehr officers began an investigation. The letters differed considerably in penmanship and phrasing. But though they also differed in length and degree of indiscretion, all of them fitted a recognizable pattern. Most of the letters had been mailed from small towns just on the western side of the zonal border with East Germany. The investigators concluded that the addresses were supplied by West German Communists, that the letters were written in the East zone and then smuggled across the border and mailed...