Word: swears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minnesota established the Lino Lakes program in 1979. About 30 sex offenders attend three group-therapy sessions a week, read books and articles dealing with their addictive behavior, and see movies showing the feelings of victims. Rapists must swear off hard-core pornography, which one psychologist describes as being "like a shot of whisky to an alcoholic." Since the program began in 1979, only four of 96 inmates completing it have been jailed again for sex crimes...
...painfully bad. The writing tries to mimic the Biblical cadence which translators often give to old, mythic stories and hence seems gimmicky, especially with Mailer's consuming interest in sex and scatology (an important episode in the book comes when Menenhetet steals some of the Pharaoh's feces, I swear). But even more annoying than the problems in execution, the concerns of the book, and its vacillation between comic book heroism and pornography is the simple fact that the book seems utterly irrelevant. I don't know if anything worse can be said about a serious book, but Ancient Evenings...
Lawyers use drugs, breaking the laws they profess to revere. Police officers use drugs, breaking the laws they swear to protect. Politicians, doctors, teachers and parents are also users and hence lawbreakers. To whom, then, can our youth look for moral leadership...
Although Borgman has established new standards of spectator support, the Crimson faithful impressed him. "I didn't think any of you guys would be here but this is a good crowd. They swear as much as we do," he said with obvious admiration...
...drive had the Koranic code name Walfajr, for "I swear by the dawn." But Iranian leaders were also calling it "the last blow to Baghdad," and noting that it was timed to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iranian revolution led by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Declared Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Hojjatoleslam Hashemi Rafsanjani: "The people expect this offensive to be the final military operation that will determine the destiny of the region...