Word: swiftness
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...Sirhan, Charles Manson and four members of his gang, will be spared. "Society," said the court, "can be protected from convicted criminals by far less onerous means than execution." Death, the justices added, "is, literally, an unusual punishment among civilized nations." And since the death penalty nowadays is neither swift nor certain anyway, it may not act as much of a deterrent. But Governor Ronald Reagan bitterly called the decision "an almost lethal blow to society's right to protect law-abiding citizens...
...country's 95 million drinkers, nearly 9,000,000 are victims of alcoholism. Besides causing intense emotional suffering, the institute reported, alcoholism shortens the life of people by ten to a dozen years, sometimes through slow damage done to internal organs, sometimes through swift violence: autopsies show a high alcohol content in the blood of half of all traffic-accident victims and a third of all murder victims-many of whom were presumably killed by other drinkers. In addition, alcoholism costs the U.S. $15 billion a year in property damage, lost work time and for health and welfare...
Almost unaccountably, the Tigers' quality of play has improved since they broke for exams. They forced Brown and Cornell into overtime, lost narrowly at Yale, and finally, after a 21-game Ivy game drought, defeated the Eli, 6-4, last weekend. Goalie Ed Swift has been playing superbly, and Ithaca native Walt Snickenberger has led the forwards in a decidedly more aggressive style...
Haunted. At such moments, Ol denburg is death's buffoon. The wind shield wiper will never be built. But the mere fact that it has been designed reminds one of Dean Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which the satirist suggested the fattening and roasting of infants as a solution to the Irish famines. Indeed, allowing for the limits within which an artist can resemble a writer, there is something very Swiftian about the whole cast of Oldenburg's imagination - haunted by death, fascinated by the elaboration of fantasy worlds in which the uses of objects...
...Even Swift's "excremental vision" has its counterpart in Oldenburg. Any object - from a typewriter eraser to a toothpaste tube, from an ice bag to an electric plug - can be seized and turned into a visible metaphor of the body's shapes and functions...