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Curbing Rancor. Although some of his fellow justices carped about Warren's lack of legal scholarship, he transformed the sometimes fractious atmosphere of the Vinson Court by a mixture of charm, tact and candor. One law clerk, quoted in Leo Katcher's Warren biography, said: "What was lacking was a spirit of 'collegiality.' . . . Warren's job was to try to bring personalities together, not beliefs. He couldn't ask anyone to abandon a deeply held belief, but to accept opposition without rancor...
...unit rule, which opened the way to democratizing the delegate-selection process. A nonsmoking teetotaler who studied for the priesthood in his youth, Crangle was named chairman of the Erie County Democrats at 32. In 1971 he became state chairman and ever since has been trying to unify his fractious party and to eradicate
...press is far more diverse, even fractious, than it appears to its audience in any one place. There is much talk about a New York-Washington "liberal axis," denoting primarily the New York Times and Washington Post, often including the three TV networks, with TIME and Newsweek thrown in for good measure. These voices do agree on some subjects. All of them, for instance, have been sympathetic to the civil rights movement. All have been more or less critical of Nixon concerning Watergate...
...matches but stopped when the fans booed him. No wrestling villain instincts resided in his lamblike breast. Instead, he became more the helpful doubles partner; he and Pat Bostrom won all their early mixed doubles and their wins seemed to be the triumph of good natured cooperation over querulous, fractious competition...
WOOD DEMON. This seldom produced Chekhov play is known in theatrical texts chiefly as an early version of Uncle Vanya. The familiar characters are here: the young doctor obsessed by forest conservation; the fractious old scholar and his bored young wife; Daughter Sonia and Brother-in-Law George (later called Vanya), who are remnants of his life with his dead first wife. There are five more major characters in this version who are elided or eliminated when Chekhov created a masterpiece out of the same material...