Broken Windows (1982)

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BROKEN WINDOWS--A theory that you go after small crime (broken windows), and it also helps against big crime.  There's an article about it in today's NEW YORK TIMES op-ed (www.nytimes.com).  See criticism of this on www.smartertimes.com.  That web site claims that "broken windows" was coined in the March 1982 ATLANTIC MONTHLY by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling (www.theatlantic.com/politics/crime/windows.htm).  I don't have my Barnhart New Words handy to check.

SPIDER--A folk design that I saw in Poland was the "spider" web, above a table.  I was told that there's a book in English on Polish folk art, but I didn't see any such book sold at the Polish museums.

(Maybe I can hitch-hike to the Word Detective's pad in Ohio.  Nobody bombs Ohio.  I can help kill his spiders--ed.)