Word: brethrens
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...anything-goes school of writing is exemplified by other recent bestsellers: Judith Krantz's Princess Daisy, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave or Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren. Like Talese, Woodward and Armstrong are not only verbose but fond of dangling their modifiers and splitting their infinitives. Toffler specializes in hyperbolic jargon: "Vast changes in the techno-sphere and the info-sphere have converged to change the way we make goods. We are moving rapidly beyond traditional mass production to a sophisticated mix of mass and demassified...
...frequently gave with one hand while taking away with the other, anyone intent on labeling the Burger Court has had to fight off a case of the whirlies. It has become fashionable to characterize the court as leaderless (all the more so since the December publication of The Brethren, the Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong reconstruction of the court's inner workings that did for Warren Burger what Unsafe at Any Speed did for the Corvair). Paul Bender, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that no single Justice "commands respect for his substantive ideas...
This independence, which has helped earn him the nickname "Even Stevens," can rub some nerves a little raw. Stevens has set himself up as a gadfly who persistently challenges his brethren. "He's thought it important to say what's on his mind, whether it's persuasive or not," observes Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. "That irritates some Justices." Adds Georgetown Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "He seemed prepared in many cases to, if not exactly reinvent the wheel, then at least reinterpret it. In every major case, he has to have his own little John Paul Stevens...
...Brethren, Woodward & Armstrong...
...Brethren, Woodward & Armstrong...