Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summarily shot. Now, with the authorities anxious to preserve legal forms, an increasingly common punishment for dissenters is confinement to mental hospitals that are often jails in disguise. Technically, Soviet courts cannot sentence a man to prison or labor camp unless he has violated the criminal code. Health officers, however, can commit anyone to "emergency psychiatric hospitalization" if his behavior is simply deemed abnormal. "Why bother with political trials," a leading Soviet forensic psychiatrist reportedly has said, "when we have psychiatric clinics...
...group's proposal would cut the maximum rate of profit for landlords in half, invalidate previous rent increases based on old profit standard, and prohibit rent increases or evictions where code violations exist (unless caused by tenants...
Work is allocated by an intricate system of labor credits so that none of the 35 members have unequal burdens. Titles and honorifics have been done away with so that, in the words of the community's code, "all are entitled to the same privileges, advantages and respect." Private property is forbidden, except for such things as books and clothing, and even with that loophole, most members draw their clothing, right down to their underwear, from a massive community closet. No one is allowed to boast of individual accomplishments, to gossip ("negative speech") or to be intolerant of another...
...directed by and starring Peter Fonda. Arch is the man in the middle, caught between a deep friendship with a farmer and a newborn love for the farmer's wife. Oates is totally convincing in the role, struggling within himself and weighing each relationship against his own moral code...
...Midwest childhood) and he fantasies (playing a hand of cards with Jesus Christ). After months of mute anguish, Joe is assigned a pretty young nurse who takes pity on him and even makes love to him. Joe eventually hits on the notion of communicating by tapping out Morse code with his head against the pillow...