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Ordinary readers can get help and enjoyment from the traditional critic who tells what impression a poem makes on him, Muir said. They glean nothing from the critic who says the poem cannot possibly mean what it seems to, and then proceeds to explain...
First, it does not extend immunity to state courts. This omission cuts the protection, as it would permit state attorneys to use Congressional finding in state prosecutions. In the Kefauver investigation, these attorneys were there intending to glean evidence for state courts, and forced witnesses to invoke the self-incrimination privilege. When a man can refuse to give evidence against himself under the Fifth Amendment, he is assured that his silence will protect him from both federal and state prosecution. Before the bill takes its final form, then, immunity must cover state as well as federal judicial bodies...
...fresh approach" to the great figures of the American past. The format for the series is neither strictly biographical nor completely anthropological, instead it presents the speeches and writings of its subject with critical interpretation and explanation by the author. Therefore the author has a double task; to glean only the most significant of a man's published thoughts, and to reveal enough of his physical life to give his words coherence...
Touring India to glean material for a book on "the economic possibilities" of the country, Eleanor Roosevelt stopped in Karachi where the All-Pakistan Women's Association presented her with a souvenir, a colorful dopatta (shawl) which she promptly put on for the benefit of photographers. Later, after a dinner party in Lahore where eight little Pakistani girls did a Punjabi folk dance, Mrs. Roosevelt amazed and delighted the guests by going through a 15-minute exhibition of the Virginia Reel...
...sort of [picture] from which students of art, history, and economics can glean information easily on the physical and psychological mores in Flanders four centuries ago. These well fed and active folk bouncing rhythmically to tones from a bagpipe reveal that jazz, jive and jamboree are but modern terms for pleasurable responses long existent in the joys of men & women in group festivities . . . Please give your pages more of such fun-provoking...