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...movie Rape, fairly mild compared to Plutarch's version, is based on a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Accordingly, the deed is done in Oregon's backwoods rather than in Rome's front yard-and in truth it is not even done...
Nothingness makes no headlines. By last week, the Geneva Conference was pretty generally a story played down and tucked away on inside pages. June 1954 might still prove to be a catastrophic month for the free world, but because it involved neither spectacular deed nor memorable word, it could not compete with television on Capitol Hill or the lure of the next motel...
...Stubborn in the right, strong in his convictions as an administrator and as a man, bold where the freedom of the human mind and spirit is concerned Nathan Pusey has made himself, in the space of a few short months, the President of Harvard both in name and in deed...
...Rabbit had sold the pistol to a hoodlum named John ("Chappy") Mazziotta. The police theory of Schuster's murder was that if Mazziotta killed him, it was out of sheer spite, because Chappy's plans to blackmail Willie Sutton were spoiled by Schuster's good deed. The police, though bright enough to turn this up, were not bright enough to find Mazziotta, despite 100,000 "wanted" posters and the efforts of some 25 city detectives assigned to the Full-time job of looking...
...theory behind the judge's sentences is a simple one. Except for obvious criminals, says he, most young people "have simply gone astray and must get another chance. They must perform some good deed related to the bad." Before each trial, Holzschuh tries to get to know the defendant. He makes the accused talk about his interests, asks him about the books he reads. Then, when the judge has heard the case, he makes the punishment fit the crime. Among the cases he has handled...