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...amicus was simply a bystanding lawyer who offered a judge neutral legal advice. But as more and more private lawsuits began to affect public interests, amid became advocates, largely in appellate courts, for otherwise unrepresented third parties-business, labor, the states, even Congress. Today, amicus briefs may sometimes dwarf the arguments of nominal litigants-and be welcomed by courts as clarifiers of widely competing interests...
...Four new perennials from New York's Jackson & Perkins, including a dwarf lavender-blue aster and a com pact, nonspreading Purple Heart...
...family) and cannot be counted on to bloom at Christmas. As a result of whooped-up claims, thousands of home gardeners plant Elberta peach trees, one of the least rewarding varieties. Another pitfall is the failure of many catalogues to describe the variety of root stock on which a dwarf apple tree is grafted (it will not be a true dwarf if it is not rooted on imported English Mailing stock), or to mention how many times an evergreen has been transplanted (it develops a more vigorous root system by being lifted out of the earth and pruned...
...great depression, a shattering war, an anxious peace, and the whole onslaught of existentialism are less inclined than ever to proclaim what Margaret Mead calls "parental imperatives." Some of the slackening has been as silly as the diffident dad in Max Schulman's I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf, who takes his son on "palship walks." But much of the diminishing tension results from parental intent as well as parental abdication. Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons finds many young parents "committed to a policy of training serious independence in youth," to which children respond with seriousness-and an occasional wistful...
...between World Wars. Back in Russia during World War II, he was Stalin's chief propagandist and heaped praise on his boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression, and his 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave the new literary movement its name. In his Memoirs, which have been running, off and on, in the Soviet press since 1960, he has tried to present...