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What constitutes the Princeton definition of "wonk" at Bickertime? The traits of a varied species can be most clearly grasped when combined into an extreme, idealized archetype, whose full obnoxious character each empirical individual but partially manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of the utter antithesis to the approved club type, imagine an inarticulate, introverted, morbidly shy sophomore from a small town in the provinces. He wears outlandish ties, dirty sweaters, and baggy pants. Not only lacking a crewcut, he is in bad need of a barber nearly all the time and obviously...
...evening. "Greetings," said the order. "Kindly pack your belongings and be ready to load at 6 a.m." It came three days earlier than expected, and was accompanied by a ban on all public gatherings, political or religious, of twelve or more people. "There is reason to apprehend a feeling of hostility," explained the Minister of Justice. But Father Trevor Huddleston, the gentle Anglican missionary who serves Sophiatown's needy, defiantly held his regular church services...
...into one handsome volume. Modern readers may smile at some of Cooper's dialogue, written in the days before Mark Twain cleared the air ("Manifest no distrust," says their escort to two beautiful girls wandering through Indian-infested forests, "or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend"). Cooper still stands out as master of action-Indian wars, deer hunts, sleigh rides, combat with wild beasts, the spring run of bass-action in which the great American wilderness is always a majestic participant. There is the bold Delaware brave Chingachgook, father of Uncas. Above all, there is Natty...
Nothing at present prohibits the FBI from listening to rewarding conversations. If the FBI hears that two men are planning to pass secret papers on a certain corner in downtown Boston, it can certainly go there to apprehend the culprits. But if it fails to make the apprehension, current law prohibits the Justice Department from pressing charges on what may have been a misinterpretation of the meaning of the conversation...
...proclaimed the bishops of the biggest U.S. Protestant body, "is indicative of a trend in our American life that threatens the security of our institutions and causes us to fear for the future of our long-established liberties . . . We heartily commend efforts being made by legally constituted authority to apprehend the disloyal and bring them to account, but we express our fervent hope that the agencies thus employed will so revise their procedures that no person will be condemned by hearsay, and that every person will have full opportunity to refute all accusations in the face of his accusers...