Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulation that allowed just five minutes in the voting booth, some Negro novices puzzled and pondered over the mysteries of the ballot for as long as half an hour. Encouragingly-if unexpectedly-sympathetic white officials usually gave them all the time they needed, even helped confused illiterates by reading aloud the candidates' names and marking ballots when voters recognized those they supported...
...thin-skinned press takes offense at the slightest criticism from President Johnson or anybody else. But what if it had to contend with a contemporary Soren Kierkegaard? Incensed by vicious newspaper attacks on his personal beliefs and eccentricities, the great 19th century Danish philosopher flayed the press both aloud and in his journals, the final volume of which is now available in English (The Last Years: Journals 1853-55; Harper & Row; $6.95). Sample scorchers...
After Smith testified that Brady had introduced him to the works of the Marquis de Sade, the prosecutor read aloud a selection from the marquis: "In a word, murder is a horror, but a horror often necessary, never criminal, and one that must be tolerated in a republican state." He then asked Smith when Brady had read that passage to him. Replied Smith: "About three weeks before Evans was killed...
Eternal Satemouths. For police, at least, perhaps the most interesting news is that warnings by no means stop confessions. In Philadelphia last October, police began giving verbal warnings as soon as they suspected anyone of being "involved." After that comes a six-question written warning that detectives carefully read aloud and suspects sign. By last month 76% of all felony suspects had nonetheless made voluntary statements; the confessors ranged from 68.8% of robbery defendants to 82.6% of murder defendants. To the Supreme Court, on the other hand, such statistics may suggest that a suspect who waives his rights to silence...
...religion, patriotism, politics, ethnic pride and national vanity. With baffled awe and unquenchable laughter, he looked upon man as the most arrogant of the apes and found him passing strange: "Man is the only animal who's got the true religion-several of 'em." Twain wonders aloud if mankind would not have been better off if Noah had missed the Ark: "To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French...