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This is only part of the answer, says Carnegie-Mellon University Professor Alfred Blumstein. The full explanation, he says, is "demographics plus toughness." Many criminal-justice experts are disturbed by the rigid form that the new toughness has taken. Since the mid-1970s nearly all states have passed some form of mandatory sentencing legislation-that is, laws stipulating that offenders convicted of certain crimes, or of a succession of crimes, must go to prison. In New York, for instance, the prisoner explosion is partly the result of a 1978 law requiring judges to imprison all violent-felony offenders...
...fiction, she proved something of a middling radical. Speedboat (1976) blurred traditional narrative and character development with the authority of a French antinovel. But the book avoided the rigid aesthetic of a Robbe-Grillet with choice bits of old-fashioned storytelling. Anecdotes, conversations and apergus were presented as a highly refined traffic din emanating from cultural Manhattan. The selected fragments added up to a lasting impression of an oddly provincial city of small talk in narrow brownstones and desperate solipsisms on the even narrower couches of psychotherapists...
...Walter Mondale's rigid liberalism should be more attractive to Democrats than John Glenn's moderate stance. Mondale is beginning to show a disturbing resemblance to Mr. Reagan in his obstinacy and self-righteousness, while Glenn's attitude of cooperation and compromise would be a refreshing change in the Oval Office...
...administrator, Kennedy was intense, but also casual about the forms-improvisational, never rigid. Eisenhower favored a formal chain of command, with orderly, predictable
...keep rigid office hours. If he wanted to take a little more time in the morning to play with Caroline in the family quarters of the White House, he did so. He had a sort of seigneurial ease about the day's routines. When he went for a swim, when he had people to dinner, when he went away for weekends at Hyannis Port, the world he thought about and tried to control was always there with him. It also kept him up late on many nights...