Word: malefactors
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...matter finally reached the critical stage in March, 1953, when a spokesman for the Un-American Activities Committee called Glasser a "serious malefactor," and he was ordered to testify before the committee in Washington. Several months previously the Rutgers board of trustees had adopted its policy of regarding use of the Fifth Amendment as valid cause for dismissal, so that Glasser went before the committee with the knowledge that refusal to testify would almost certainly prejudice his position in the University...
Progress & Poison. To the psychologist, says Sir Walter, the proper approach to the delinquent is "therapeutic rather than juridical; the offender is to be regarded as a sick man to be healed rather than as a malefactor to be chastised . . . Ultimately then, all praise and blame are irrational." Bernard Shaw put the moral, says Sir Walter, when he once suggested that a man should no more be punished for having an inefficient conscience than for having an inefficient lung...
...Mozier, the victim, eluded the malefactor and fled into a nearby house to call the police. She is the daughter of Julian L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, and former master of Lowell House...
...short, not good-looking, full of adolescent illusions about himself, intelligent and endearing. The brisk plot recounts his efforts to restore to beautiful Marian Barking her stolen estates. Author Myers' women are somewhat featureless, his male characters agreeably vital-in particular, one Tom the Crowder, a malefactor with more entertainment value than Ulysses' sirens, and much less conscience. Author Myers' period painting is unobtrusive, his humor humorous. Occasional references to carnal pursuits give a discreet impression of Elizabethan lust...
...Wrest Coast harvest fields, drove a tractor on a cinema studio lot, organized magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption, but not enough disquieted to put a stop...