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Such bits are themselves the birdseed scattered through The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals, the agreeable useless information that spices its usefulness. For the layman-though the specialist, whether on the bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons...
...judge the vanquished. "Is Hiroshima," he wonders, "the superior morality?" And there are several scenes of punishing mockery in which U.S. authorities, worried by Russian aggressiveness and anxious to win the support of the German public, try to persuade Judge Tracy to acquit the defendants. Do they essentially differ, Kramer asks, from the Nazi politicians who put pressure on the very German judges Tracy is trying...
...surprising that guesses differ. Some people think that the Faculty did not want the players to lose additional study time at the end of the season just to play in the tournament. Others think that the Administration did not want to assume the extra expenses of a trip and hotel bills. Many more think that Harvard declined to enter the NCAA's because it was afraid of losing--especially when the decisions came out late in the season, apparently after the Faculty had seen how good the team was. Still others just don't know what to think. The press...
...sums up the Texan of today by quoting British Journalist George Warrington Steevens' summary of the turn-of-the-century American: "He may make his mind easy about his country. It is a credit to him, and he is a credit to it. You may differ from him, you may laugh at him; but neither of these is the predominant emotion he inspires. Even while you differ or laugh, he is essentially the man with whom you are always wanting to shake hands...
...fighting for its existence it asked for faith and time. Both were granted. It is unfortunate that the long wait and the show of faith (as exemplified in the substantial monetary pledges this fall) have not been more handsomely repaid. Actually, the Constitution being presented for ratification does not differ tremendously from the one the Council had when it toppled. No new lines of action are drawn...