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Students in boarding schools fall under the area in which their school is located. Because Harvard draws large numbers of applicants from Phillips Academy at Andover and Phillips Exeter, the two schools are combined to from a docket of their own, Jewett says...
...does not survive on its masterpieces but between them. Much the same is true of Shaw. His finest works, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House and Pygmalion, are rarely performed. Conversely, scarcely a season passes when the overestimated Saint Joan and Candida do not show up on some theater's docket. One could hardly underestimate The Devil's Disciple. Shaw himself thought that this 1897 play would eventually be considered a "threadbare popular melodrama...
...which require no sentencing. "They're calling me 'Minimum John,' " joked the jurist. Although his new status of senior judge is a form of retirement, Sirica can keep his staff if he needs them. Apparently he will: he already has 130 civil suits on his new docket...
...judge has few outside diversions except an occasional golf game, tinkering with grandfather clocks, and a periodic chaw of Red Man chewing tobacco. His capacity for work is remarkable, and he keeps his docket unusually current. If an attorney fails to file papers on time, Johnson is apt to call him personally-collect...
...hundreds of other youngsters, even after the court has ordered otherwise. In an "intake part"-a court that, among other things, determines whether a kid should be held or paroled pending a hearing-Judge Phillip Thurston calls for the next docket number. It involves a 15-year-old, already being held on a narcotics charge, who had been remanded to a privately run shelter. Now he is to have a new hearing on a car theft. There is an awkward silence after the judge asks, "Well, where is he?" Papers are shuffled, and a probation officer announces: "Judge, he wasn...