Word: byronic
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Even that specific rule, with its insistence on the importance of the "focus" point, struck the four dissenters as all wrong. Not only is the rule unworkable "unless police cars are equipped with public defenders," declared Justice Byron White, but it "reflects a deep-seated distrust of law-enforcement officers everywhere." Said Justice John M. Harlan...
...schools and recreation facilities will be added to service a population expected to surpass 3,500 by 1969. The goal: to transform Marin City from a microcosm of big-city racial woes into an integrated community befitting its idyllic setting. "If we can't do it here," says Byron Leydecker, chairman of the county supervisors, "we can't do it anywhere...
Married. Maria Cooper, 28, willowy daughter of the late Gary Cooper; and Byron Janis, 38, Pittsburgh pianist lionized by the Russians during 1960 and 1962 tours; he for the second time; in Woodbridge, Conn...
...half a century before that, from 1794 until the triumph of Dickens and Thackeray, The Mysteries of Udolpho was an international bestseller, acclaimed by Coleridge as "the most interesting novel in the English language." It enchanted Keats, who under its influence wrote The Eve of St. Agnes; it electrified Byron, who stole its hero and called him Childe Harold; it directly inspired Sir Walter Scott to produce his greatest works, the Waverly novels. And even today Udolpho commands deference as the first successful thriller in the language and the proximate cause of the grand tradition of the grotesque that runs...
...national welfare as a student or as a soldier. Most administrators expect a crisis to come this summer, when many "to-the-end-of-the-term" deferments will run out and be closely reviewed by draft boards. "I foresee losing quite a few students by September," says Byron H. Atkinson, dean of students at U.C.L.A. Says Tennessee State Director Arnold Malone: "We're going to have to put the screws on the students. We will either make good students or good soldiers out of them...