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...been criticized by stuffier colleagues as "too commercial," but the zesty expert on criminal law accepts that tag as a compliment. For Kamisar, who once longed to be a sportswriter, "the lawyer is the great translator" who should strive to make legal principles clear to the general public. Kamisar has churned out many articles for magazines and newspapers, sometimes working through the night when he is pursuing a good idea. He is a witty performer in the classroom, cajoling, infuriating, charming his students-all the while, he says, "trying to develop a certain kind of mind, a legal mind, that...
...were responsible. When things went bump in the night, it was far better to suspect the hobgoblins than creatures more substantial and threatening. Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous life beyond the reach of the wealthiest voluptuaries. The highest compliment Edmund Spenser could pay Elizabeth I was to call her the Faerie Queene. The Little People could do everything that the big people could...
...what about Neil Young? No, this does seem to be a needless digression... However, I must again compliment Joe Dalton on his fine article. I hope to see more from him in the future...
...1920s, while tasting formal training at New York City's Art Students League, he contributed drawings of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to the National Police Gazette. Moving to Paris ("Why do I live in Paris? Because in Paris it's a compliment to be called crazy."), he began the miniature circus of wire sculptures that he kept adding to for decades...
Wrote Carter about Rickover in Why Not the Best?: "He was unbelievably hard-working and competent, and he demanded total dedication from his subordinates. We feared and respected him and strove to please him ... The absence of a comment was his compliment; he never hesitated to criticize severely if a job were not done as well as he believed it could be done. He expected the maximum from us." Carter deals with his own aides in a more humane way, even managing an occasional commendation. But the fact that the Rickover manner impresses him suggests that he is still susceptible...