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...that I believed that the jury which originally tried Dr. Edelin was incorrectly instructed by the trial judge. I tried as clearly as I could to point out to your reporter that in the partial dissent and partial concurrence of Chief Justice Hennessey, he stated that the conviction should be reversed and Dr. Edelin should have a new trial because the jury was not instructed that the defendant, in order to be convicted, must be found beyond a reasonable doubt to have "formed his judgment of non-viability either in bad faith, or unreasonably, based upon facts he knew...
...sorts is emerging. The board's liberal majority favors a package of tax cuts and increases in Government spending totaling $15 billion to $20 billion. That range is acceptable to some Wall Street economists as well. Two weeks ago, a group of businessmen consulting with Carter showed no dissent to a $23 billion plan proposed by General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones...
More than any of his contemporaries, John Gardner has made being a novelist a hyphenated art. In The Sunlight Dialogues he did a brilliant turn as philosopher-novelist, debating issues of law and dissent while nimbly stage-managing a family melodrama in upstate New York. In his re-creations of myth, Grendel and Jason and Medeia, he played the novelist-as-epic-poet, perhaps a little consciously; but once again he revealed his consistent longing for Significance, for the Big Theme, for some dimension that extends beyond the modern novel into older, more classical forms...
...audience inside, sheltered from the sub-zero wind-chill cold that the protesters endured, didn't seem to believe that, though. Most politely applauded Colby when he finished. They listened patiently when he explained the necessity for gathering information about other countries. They did not offer dissent when he said that he tried to reform the CIA in 1973, before the sensational revelations about assassinations of foreign leaders, deals with Mafia hit-men, domestic spying...
With his moralist, individualist approach, upperclass lifestyle and unshakeable belief in the democratic and civil libertarian ideals Thomas, never a Marxist ideologue, was at best a bourgeois socialist. Indeed, in his later years, disturbed by the systematic suppression of dissent in Stalinist Russia, he felt his socialist faith slipping...