Word: byronic
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Real Threat. "Completely illogical." said Justice Byron White in a stinging dissent joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice John Harlan. Pointing out that a Selective Service regulation makes it a continuing duty to register, they argued that the crime of not registering is also continuing. Wrote White: "The majority holds that when dawn breaks on the unregistered male. six days after his 18th birthday, his crime is complete and ended: though the Act specifically declares that he is still liable for induction, he has no obligation to take the step which makes that induction possible...
...laugh at any mortal thing,/ Tis that I may not weep," wrote Byron. That philosophical fragment accounts for the duality of all black farce; looking between the cracks, one catches glimpses of hell...
...play it becomes a literal dead end, a pothole of a tropical police state where the street cleaners lie in wait to cart away the appointed victims. These include some of the great romantics of history and literature, a sort of aristocracy of personal excesses: Casanova, Lord Byron, Proust's Baron de Charlus, Marguerite Gautier, and Kilroy, an American with a heart "as big as the head of a baby...
...Harvard Bookstore and the Coop are both having sales of publishers' overstock. At the Harvard Bookstore, a photo album of Ranches and Ranch Life in America is reduced from $10 to $4.95 and a biography of Byron's half-sister is down to $2.49 from $6.50. At the Coop, Only to God, the Extraordinary Life of Geoffrey Lowell Cabot has been humbled from $8.98 to $2.98, and Time-Life correspondent Hugh Sidey's reminiscences of the Johnson Administration have tumbled across a $4 credibility gap from...
...Crimson will have to do more than rattle Dartmouth's guards, however. With 6' 10" center Jim Masker. 6" 7" forward Tom Byron, and Win, Dartmouth has a definite height advantage under the boards...