Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trial of Dr. Adams, by Sybille Bedford. One of those dramas in which London's Old Bailey tops...
...Trial of Dr. Adams, by Sybille Bedford. Superbly styled proof that London's Old Bailey often makes for better drama than...
...TRIAL OF DOCTOR ADAMS (245 pp.)-Sybille Bedford-Simon & Schuster...
...easily one of the outstanding legal dramas ever to be seen at London's Old Bailey. Its major appeal did not rest on sex, money or gore; it came from the encounter between law and medicine, two intricate, big, imprecise and sometimes deadly disciplines. British Author Sybille Bedford, noted for her brilliant novel The Legacy (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), has recreated the trial in a fascinating book...
Shadow Play. To the account of all this-the fencing of crossexamination, the cumbersome but deeply civilized legal safeguards of the individual, the Greek chorus of spectators and newsmen commenting on the proceedings-Author Bedford brings a superb style and a magic eye through which she sees old scenes in a new way. One of her courtroom vignettes: "Some of the seats have emptied. People have crept out into the hall, to send off the latest or just to smoke, for air . . . Looking back through the glass panels of the shut door, one can see into the court-wigged heads...