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...easy-going and light-hearted style, famed novelist Saul Bellow read excerpts last night from his new novel Ravelstein to a large audience at the First Parish in Cambridge. He stopped afterwards to pose for pictures and meet with admirers...
...equality of all Americans under the law is meaningless unless all citizens have equal access to the law and the protections it affords. Brandeis Professor of Law Gary Bellow, who passed away two weeks ago, recognized this truth and his work both in the classroom and in the community, helping to bring the power of the law to bear on the side of the powerless...
...Bellow used his talents and his knowledge of the law in a wide variety of roles to serve the interests of the disadvantaged. He worked to provide legal aid to poor residents of Washington, D.C. and was one of the founders of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, which worked to defend migrant workers during their struggle to unionize...
...Bellow's career is a vivid reminder that the law is an important defense for the disadvantaged. He once observed, "We discovered the best legal education America had to offer didn't teach us how to get someone out of a cellblock." In remembering Bellow we remember to vigilantly watch and work so that all Americans know that they can find recourse in the law, equally...
...mind for is a piece in which he said, 'I opened my eyes and here was the world. Here was this great human and divine enterprise.' And it was as though I had just opened my eyes on what human existence was, really. It was my turn." Bellow takes that turn again, childlike wonder and all, in Ravelstein, when Chick says, "In the interval of light between the darkness in which you awaited first birth and then the darkness of death that would receive you, you must make what you could of reality, which was in a state of highly...