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...those who became Communists scienter and libere-with full knowledge and full freedom of choice. "These two adverbs, if fully understood." said Palestra, "prevent any excessive rigor in the application of what the decree lays down ... It is evidently up to the cleric in each individual case to distinguish between true willful Communists and those who are victims of illusion, hence of ignorance; between those who have freely chosen to belong to the Communist Party and those who have been driven by necessity to Communist Party membership...
...Great Tree. Out from Westminster Hall into the mild English summer day streamed the American lawyers, standing about New Palace Yard (called "new" to distinguish William Rufus' building from Edward the Confessor's old palace that once stood near by), excitedly discussing the speeches they had heard. Then they dispersed to a week of other meetings, other speeches, other trips to see sights that were variants upon the struggle for rule of law: the Tower of London, where Sir Thomas More, great lawyer and judge, was imprisoned by Henry VIII before his head was cut off, parboiled...
...relative merits of clean versus dirty bombs, especially from the point of view of a shock hydrodynamicist. War has always been a stupid, nasty and insane business, at best, and the present orders of magnitude on civilian targets lends little sense to the hypocrisy of trying to distinguish between useful and useless killing...
Invited to shed some light on why Director John Huston stomped off the set of A Farewell to Arms in a rancorous farewell to Producer David O. Selzniclc last April, Farewell Scriptwriter Ben Hecht smiled the smile of a man who can distinguish the buttered side of the bread, shed only cigar smoke: "Ah, there is an old Chinese proverb that is the best clue to the incompatibility of David and John: 'When two eagles fly off together into the sky and disappear into a cloud, who can say which flew the higher...
...distinguish the crews at a distance, Harvard's president, Charles W. Eliot, bought a half-dozen magenta handkerchiefs which the rowers wore on their heads. In 1875, after considerable dispute, the official Harvard color was changed to crimson...