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...hotel near the Loop. Its lobby was a stage set filled with bit players of the '20s: drifters, grifters, autodidacts, a few nuts and bolts from the political machine. Some of the guests, Terkel remembers, "favored me with little nickel blue books: writings of Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, Thomas Paine, Bob Ingersoll, Upton Sinclair, Voltaire." Young Terkel was ripe for this heady blend of populism and indignation. The political passion of his life was conceived in 1924 when Fighting Bob La Follette ran for President on the Progressive ticket. "There were two other candidates," Terkel notes...
Blue came to Harvard on a scholarship with the intent of going on to Harvard Law School. "I wanted to be the black Clarence Darrow...I was going to start freeing all the people who didn't belong in jail," he says. Impressed with the sermons he heard at Appleton Chapel and Memorial Church here, Blue decided he might help people from the pulpit, and enrolled in Yale Divinity School. But while preaching a funeral sermon there, Blue realized that the ministry was not his calling. "I suddenly realized what a mystery life is, and that I didn't have...
...decisions, prescribed that a defense attorney must at least discuss a client's rights with him, outline "fully" the possible trial tactics and conduct all "appropriate investigations." Perhaps such rules would not be necessary, said Bazelon, "if all defense attorneys had the skill and experience of a Clarence Darrow. We do not live in that kind of world, however." Bazelon then reversed the 1970 robbery conviction of Willie DeCoster Jr. because his lawyer had not interrogated some witnesses who might have backed the defendant's story...
...certainly contributed to the success of the play. No such element of surprise exists in I Have a Dream and Billy Dee Williams' performance has a snake oil slickness that robs it of the craggy integrity that Hal Holbrook brought to Mark Twain, or Henry Fonda to Clarence Darrow. The idea of having a character who is seemingly Coretta King (Judyann Elder), deliver lengthy asides on the ideals of King violates another internal law of drama: never explain - always reveal...
This fiftieth anniversary Album of Drawings (an overly pretentious title for a not-at-all middle-aged collection) juxtaposes Booth, Lorenz, Saxon and Koren with Thurber, Arno, Hokinson and Irvin, along with William Steig, Charles Addams and Whitney Darrow, to chronicle a half century of the idiosyncracies of the American species. If some of the cartoons seem to depend too heavily on the actual social conditions of their time, we can rely on our memories and our knowledge of human nature to see their humor...