Word: altered
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tell them that I'll grant it--unless, that is, I can't. I've had the strangest dream last night, a dream of dire import; Ronald Reagan had become Santa Claus--or so it was, I thought. If the world can turn that topsy-turvy, then I can alter too. I've learned my Christmas lesson--my amoral days are through. Besides, the way things are looking, a promise won't have much effect: There won't be enough of us left next year for anyone to collect...
...looking back at the CRR's practices, the Faculty members find little that they would alter. The committee "acted in good faith," Wilson still holds. As to the harshness of some sentences, Wilson points out, the students themselves engaged in "a good deal of pushing and shoving and violence" at the demonstrations. As for the violence students suffered at the hands of police, Schwartz agrees that the brutality did unsettle him and some of his colleagues. "But of course we weren't asked to adjudicate that," he adds...
...first view, Lonnie Wayne Burke (Griffin Dunne) is a criminal street urchin who almost seems afraid of his $2 handgun. A scruffy pressagent, Manny Alter, played with drooling opportunism by Larry Block, sees the chance to turn Lonnie into a lethal hot property. Decking the punk in a skeleton suit and dubbing him "the Halloween Killer," Manny starts Lonnie on the garish glory road to 27 murders. The tabloids swiftly pick up the scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee...
...motives behind its creation. Administrators have tinkered with some details of CRR's workings in response to student pressure, but the group's essential purpose remains unchanged: to co-opt some students into sitting in judgement on their peers for their political actions. Reform from within cannot alter that, and reforms alone will not improve a group with such an abhorrent purpose. Abolition, not reform, is CRR's deserved fate...
What has sparked renewed interest in these procedures is growing evidence that they can indeed alter behavior. Originally, the goals were modest: the relief of pain caused by a misaligned Dick Tracy jaw, for example, or the treatment of constant drooling by a deformed inmate who could not close his mouth. But as Bear and Joy told a conference of their colleagues in San Francisco, these operations often pay dividends for society. Joy points with pride to a once unpopular prisoner at Virginia State Penitentiary, an antisocial murderer who, after surgery to correct a grossly protruding jaw, finally...