Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II combat veteran (Army, Purple Heart, Croix de guerre) who afterwards took to politics. In 1950 and 1952 he won election to the Massachusetts house, resigned in 1953 to be Vice President Nixon's administrative aide in Washington, later served as general counsel for Nixon's G.O.P. hair shirt, Harold E. Stassen. In 1956 Herter ran successfully for the State Executive Council...
...book's teachings have much relevance even today, which testifies to their eternal validity. Counsel of particular interest to Harvard and Radcliffe students is printed below on the assumption that enlightenment will lead to ethical goodness...
...Safe Counsel will be particularly valuable to those who look back nostalgically to the golden age of universal morality. For those adrift on the sea of relativism and naturalism, Safe Counsel is a Gibraltar of immutable rules of conduct...
...this reason that Safe Counsel, written in 1904, is a valuable guide for those seeking spiritual and moral redemption. As the authors warn: "Let the reader of this work study its pages carefully ... and remember that purity of purpose and purity of character are the brightest jewels in the crown of immortality...
...time "slips by on leaden wings." Yet, despite the leaden feet of the cliches, the book does move. Author Voelker's characters come most alive in the courtroom, in the thrust and parry of cross-examination and in the springing of tactical ambushes and legal traps by opposing counsel. It is quite ordinary writing but good entertainment, and few readers will turn aside until the fate of Lieut. Frederic Manion is finally decided...