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...wonder why American journalists keep trying to write about Rome as though it provided some very significant analogy to America. Remember John Gunther producing that book about Julius Caesar? Teddy White wrote a play, too, about crossing the Rubicon. Even Hemingway, in the midst of covering the Spanish Civil War, wrote a grotesque playlet about the three Roman soldiers who had just crucified Christ. One of them keeps repeating, "I tell you, he was pretty good in there today...
...change in roles takes getting used to. Vernon Goodin, an early bird by nature, found himself racing through traffic to get to court on time, then relaxed when he realized "I'm the judge. They can't start without me." Gunther Detert remembers thinking that he would have trouble with objections to evidence. "But it came easy," he said after presiding over a fire-damage case. "I could see it a mile off. The real area of work was preparing instructions for the jury. The court people, the clerk and reporter and bailiff, keep you right on track...
...especially so in a nation undergoing explosive social change. Unless decisions are explained with sufficient care, lower courts may be unclear about the broad principles they are supposed to apply in particular cases. When the Supreme Court scants reason in favor of mere results, says Stanford's Gerald Gunther, a decision may be "valid only as long as you have a majority of five votes. As the reasons get weaker, a later judge is freer to follow his own likes and dislikes. A decision is then easier to overturn...
...long time, campus dons, like a lot of other folk, took the view that jazz is best learned, if at all, as it used to be: in nightclubs, in Storeyville houses, at Mammy's knee or some other low joint. It took just one book, though, Gunther Schuller's lovingly scholastic Early Jazz, published in 1968, to confirm that jazz could stand up to the same kind of penetrating musical analysis usually accorded classics like the Beethoven quartets or the Wagner Ring cycle. Lately, jazz has swung into the academies like one of the old Woody Herman Herds...
Most stage directors know that controlling a cast of actors requires a combination of affection and whip cracking. To Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, the gaudy star of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the right mixture of toughness and tenderness means more than professional success; it means physical survival...