Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thurs., May 21 The Lawless Years (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.)* For those who like their shoot-'em-ups on foot instead of horseback. Some noisy nostalgia for the hard, big-city hoods of the '20s and an even harder real-life cop: Barney Ruditsky, a detective who has long since deserted New York's finest for the green-backed life of a private peeper...
...Lawless Years (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Première of a new drama series based on the Prohibition adventures of muscular Manhattan Detective Barney Ruditsky...
...long voyage home, from Kresge to Kirkland via Weeks Bridge, humps over the Charles River and through a dark land of lawless marauders. Within the last week at least two students were set upon and robbed by packs of locals youths as they negotiated their way Houseward from the Business School parking...
...liberating drama when he said that in a good play everyone must seem in the right. For the two killers this is impossible, less because of how hideous their crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case-and its causes -remain too special to expand into identifiable bedevilment in man's fate...
...suggest that the name of Little Rock, Ark. be changed. They must have a very Big Rock there for all the Protestants, Catholics, Jews and unaffiliated law-abiding citizens to hide under while Godless, lawless hoodlums take charge...