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...sterile suburb of Tokyo, a couple, not quite young, not yet old, lives in a stereotyped housing development. Childless and friendless, they also become, in effect, anonymous, merely "she" and "he." Then "she" suddenly awakens to the universe outside her door. Alongside the development lives a colony of bedraggled ragpickers who subsist on the refuse of their privileged neighbors. One of them "she" recognizes as her husband's college classmate. "She" befriends him and his blind ward, a little girl whose wild, wandering eyes make her a creature of special desperation. Embarrassed by the fall of his onetime classmate...
...well be a national slander, but it proves true enough in the case of János Rakóssy, the tough, devious hero of this historical novel. The Hungarians were latecomers to Western Europe, drifting in from southern Russia in the 9th century, and they were so often friendless that it is a wonder they lasted at all. Rakóssy is set in one of the worst times of trouble for the Magyars-when Suleyman the Magnificent and his Turkish Janissaries swept up through the Balkans in 1525 and made pilaff of the Hungarian chivalry at the battle...
...fierce but loses much of its bite toward the end when Director Morassi begins to moralize, using cinematic italics merely to emphasize that a poor honest slob is better off than a well-fixed heel. By the time Giulio has learned how to succeed, he is jobless, friendless, wifeless and miserably rich. It is left to Gassman to give the film lightness and laceration. He is the compleat climber, abristle with tight-smiling assurance and an air of faintly desperate camaraderie that makes Il Successo's trumped-up sociology seem like the whole truth...
...rejecting jurors who oppose execution, says University of Texas Law Professor Walter E. Oberer, prosecutors get jurors "who not only condone capital punishment, but believe in it." Abolitionists also argue that execution is performed capriciously -on only one out of 100 convicted murderers, and then usually on the poor, friendless and uneducated. Some 54% of the 3,885 Americans executed since 1930 have been Negroes, and in the 1950s, for example, Ohio executed 51% of whites and 78% of Negroes found guilty of capital offenses...
Classic Predisposition. Modern merchant seamen are a long voyage away from the "poor and friendless" creatures that the Supreme Court called their forebears in 1823. Strong laws and strong unions give them some remarkable privileges. Admiralty cases are heard in federal courts, and by federal statute seamen's wages cannot be attached except by wives and minor children. Seamen, on the other hand, may sue not only a shipowner but his ship itself. And wherever the ship flees other countries will honor a decree against...