Word: harvests
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When the Justices of the Supreme Court sat down to consider their current harvest of pornography cases, they found themselves in rare and unanimous agreement on one point: the procedures then in effect for handling the problem were a hopeless failure. Thus they concluded that the entire legal definition of obscenity had to be reexamined. Justice William Brennan, chief architect of the court's gradual course toward liberalization, argued urgently that virtually all pornography bans should be scrapped as constitutionally unworkable. With no less force, Chief Justice Warren Burger spoke in favor of stricter standards, "more concrete than those...
...HARVEST HOME by THOMAS TRYON 401 pages. Knopf...
...source of supply. They chance on the tiny, lost village of Cornwall Coombe, a New England hamlet that, except for electricity, martinis and the odd Oldsmobile, seems stuck in the early 19th century. The farmers there avoid newfangled machines and methods, and the rhythmic planting, growth and harvest of the corn crop through the turning seasons rules village life...
...strangeness of Cornwall Coombe seems to center on the ritualistic way in which the town's corn is planted and harvested. Every seven years a young farmer is chosen to be Harvest Lord, and he in turn chooses a Corn Maiden to preside with him over these rituals. For the seven years of his reign the Harvest Lord is honored with gifts, free labor, respect. After that, well, it's sheer happenstance, of course, but there don't seem to be any former Har vest Lords around, only an extra ordinary number of placid widows...
...Constantine, foolish male, has apparently never read The Golden Bough. He keeps poking into the secrets of Cornwall Coombe until the full moon at harvest time. He is in deeper trouble than he knows. "They call it the Moon of No Repentance around here," says the local matriarch. "Come harvest, you take what there is - too late for repentance . . . there are some hereabouts who don't take kindly to a man who makes fun at our ways...