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Innocent Mind. What makes all this a current cause célèbre in assorted law reviews is the fact that statutory rape is a rare anomaly in U.S. law. In most crimes, notes Omaha Lawyer Larry W. Myers in the Michigan Law Review, the prosecution must prove mens rea (the guilty mind), an ancient concept that includes criminal intent. Not so for statutory rape. An American may beat the rap by proving that he didn't do it, proving that the girl was of age-or (in Virginia) marrying her. In most cases, though, a claim that...
...with the New York Philharmonic while Leonard Bernstein is on his sabbatical. Steinberg will also make his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, conducting 24 performances of three operas. "I have some real killers arranged for New York," he says gleefully, referring to Berlioz' rarely performed Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, a work for 180 musicians that will require the West Point Band as well as the Philharmonic, Leon Kirchner's Second Piano Concerto, and the American première of Bartok's Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra. "Then I have something for the New York snobs...
...down." The Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union took defensive note of the wave of anger that, in the first hours after Kennedy's death, seemed to focus on the far right. The assassination, said the Times-Union, "must not be allowed to become the cause célèbre for a witch-hunt against those who, for reasons of principle and honor, have chosen not to follow the line of those in power but who have acted out their part as a 'loyal opposition...
Life was becoming increasingly litigious for privacy-seeking Poet e. e. cummings, 67, ("i use capitals ONLY for emphasis"), who last fall went to court for resisting plumbing improvements to his Greenwich Village digs. Latest cause célébre was a complaint that his printer and a book dealer had peddled a number of his original manuscripts without authorization. Cummings was so agitated that he signed the lawsuit with upper-case initials...
...presidential residence, Nkrumah is becoming increasingly aware of the people's mood and is fearful that they might find a strong leader to rally around. Hence his continued repression to prevent the people from short-circuiting Ahuna Bo Birim-for that may be the one unmanageable event that Bre Nsem Ase will not be able to handle...