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...first of three Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, Walter Gellhorn, a member of the Law Faculty at Columbia University for 33 years, said that the U.S. needs a trained professional critic of the government. Such a critic might be similar to the Swedish ombudsman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Expert Says U.S. Needs To Curb Massive Federal Powers | 3/29/1966 | See Source »

...ombudsman handles complaints of citizens abused by the federal bureaucracy. The office was invented by the Swedes in 1809. Today, the Swedish ombudsman and his staff handle 1300 complaints a year, a number which Gellhorn called remarkably small. The complaints are usually petty ones, but they can often lead to the complete overhauling of federal agencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Expert Says U.S. Needs To Curb Massive Federal Powers | 3/29/1966 | See Source »

PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. In three long short stories set in the weary world of Continental society, people manipulate friends as well as cards to shake their boredom. In both games there is always a loser, but in worldly collapse each of Gellhorn's failures finds the clue to moral regeneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. In three long short stories set in the weary world of Continental society, people manipulate friends as well as cards to shake their boredom. In both games there is always a loser, but in worldly collapse each of Gellhorn's failures finds the clue to moral regeneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. The three stories are set in the weary world of Continental society, where people manipulate friends as well as cards to slake their boredom. In each story there is a loser, and in the collapse of his flimsy designs is the germ of a less frantic, more satisfying life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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