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A stroll around the exhibition turns up nothing that is not representational, nothing whose style or execution departs any considerable distance from the work of Frederic Remington or Charles M. Russell, the great turn-of-the-century cowboy artist. Bill Nebeker's small bronze, Givin' the Boys a...
Gilbert and Gubar, both university teachers, make no bones about writing from a feminist perspective; they claim that men have denied women not only the right to think, but to express themselves, a claim Gilbert and Gubar back up with some terrifying examples, one of them this remark by Gerald...
HE DID NOT ALWAYS WIN, and Douglas lays his failures, as well as an occasional mistake, out for all to see. In June, 1953, Douglas issued a stay in the execution of Julius and Ethel1
Each study is based on opposing views of how potential murderers react to executions. Pierce and Bowers found that "the publicity surrounding an execution, let alone witnessing one, may cause some pepole--perhaps those on the fringe of sanity--to become fascinated and obsessed with the condemned person's crime...
However, Phillips said the most plausible explanation for his results is that "public executions temporarily deter homicides which then reappear after the lesson of the execution fades from memory."