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...court has always said yes whenever it has tackled the question. But now it is painfully aware that hopeful convicts are flooding lower courts with appeals while critics flay judges for "freeing criminals." Last week, in a 7 to 2 decision, the court refused for the first time to give retroactive effect to a great Bill of Rights decision-Mapp v. Ohio...
...Flash, Flay, Fly. The big reason was a U.S.-Australia switch in roles. Time was, and not so long ago, that wave after wave of bony-faced, floppy-haired Australians would flash into Forest Hills, flay the U.S. amateurs, and fly off with all the prizes. The top Aussies might then turn professional, but Australia was so deep in first-rank tennis players that it hardly made a difference; next year's wave would be just as devastating. Last week Australia had to be content with a one-man wave and a wavelet-second-seeded Roy Emerson and fifth...
...published only a few dozen sharply tooled poems, but they are among the best written in the U.S. this century. A critic of high reputation, he has never allowed his views to fossilize; he can retreat with grace from an untenable position, or with great courtesy flay the hide off a literary wrongdoer...
...into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers had once worn white gloves, flay his hands while he still lives. "Our men were not lacking in invention either," the White narrator laconically admits. It was a war in which few prisoners were spared, but all were prisoners of its outcome...
Grogs's manners improved not a jot in the years that followed, and his firm voice never lost its strength. An ardent believer in the future of Kenya, he became one of the colony's richest men, but he never ceased to flay those with whom he disagreed. His suggested solution in the early days of Mau Mau terrorism was characteristically simple: "Catch a hundred of these rascals and hang 25 of them in front of the others . . . they are just black baboons." This view outraged the Colonial Office, and left-wing sentiment in Britain, but the government...