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...Ghelderode thus denies ordinary logic on his stage. He thereby enables himself to play on his audience's emotions in ways that ordinary logic would forbid. By expanding the range of responses which he can try for, however, he also creates difficulties for the players: When the action lacks logic, the actors lose one guide to interpreting their lines...
Painful Precedents. Black sharply dissented, but the vaguely worded rule remained on the books to cause case-by-case confusion for the next two decades. In 1947, the Court took a similar tack in Adamson v. California, saying that the Fifth Amendment did not forbid states to pressure a defendant to testify against himself. Calling this "an incongruous excrescence on our Constitution," Black offered an elaborately researched dissent arguing that the 14th Amendment's framers themselves intended the Bill of Rights as a shield against the states. He won over three other Justices (Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge). A fifth vote...
...Vermont was the first State admitted to the Union after the original thirteen . . . Vermont drafted the first State consitution to forbid slavery...
...crime for serving liquor in their own homes. "A man's home is his castle, isn't it?" was the frequent plaint. Other parents in other areas might be equally surprised to learn that they were lawbreakers too. In many states, the law can be interpreted to forbid any person to serve liquor to an adolescent, whether in public or private. In other states, adults can be held culpable for such an amiable drawing-room practice on the grounds that they have contributed "to the delinquency of a minor...
College regulations this year for the first time forbid students to submit the same paper "in substance" to two courses unless they first obtain the approval of instructors in both...