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...Frail Standard. To just that end, the N.A.A.C.P. argued in Washington that Defendants Hoffman and McLaughlin (who are still living together) were deprived of the 14th Amendment's guarantees of due process and equal protection of the laws. Florida does not ban cohabitation by unmarried persons of the same race, for example, and the defendants were unable to plead common-law marriage because Florida forbids intermarriage under another law, which the N.A.A.C.P. also wants struck down. Moreover, Florida's definition of Negro ("every person having one-eighth or more of African or Negro...
...looks happier than he has in years, restoring the faith of his followers in the legend that he will live to be 99. Last week, looking back on the years of his disfavor, the frail friar, whose still-bleeding hands are hidden in red knit mittens, said: "The wretchedness of men equals the mercy...
...they considered a reliably docile civilian triumvirate too weak to do any harm-or any good. But when the junta went through its inevitable first shake-up last December, out went one of its members and in stepped Donald Reid Cabral, 40, a Santo Domingo auto dealer and the frail (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.) but strong-willed son of a Scots banker. Since then, Reid has clearly become more equal than the others in the triumvirate. This week, as military men complained to Reid about still another member of the equal trio, his importance became even more marked...
Leonard Radcliffe, the novel's hero, is a frail, foul, moonstruck young man, the son of a troubled aristocrat who has taken a job as caretaker of his decaying family's decaying mansion. From his childhood it has been clear that Leonard is brilliant and in some way blighted. For several chapters, the best of the book, it seems that Storey intends to revive that abandoned form, the psychological novel. His dry, astringent description of Leonard's decline into adulthood is drawn from that curious middle ground between detachment and involvement that Dostoevsky used...
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor and Cliff Robertson add style to a frail charade detailing the decline and fall of a 22-year-old virgin who has found virtue unrewarding...