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The court has 18 judges (representing the convention's 18 original drafters) elected by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, but usually it hears cases with seven judges-one from the country involved, six drawn by lot. Ironically, the drawing in all three of the court'...
During the next 25 years, Robert Emmet Sherwood became successively a well-known movie and book reviewer, magazine editor, script doctor, playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily...
Strange are the powers of the inscrutable Occident and its music. Whenever Japan's scholarly Prince Mikasa, 49, youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, hears the screechings of a U.S. hillbilly tune, he sheds his coat and happily stomps around like a Tennessee mountaineer. The prince did it twice on...
MRS. STEVENS HEARS THE MERMAIDS SINGING by May Sarton. 220 pages. Norton. $4.50.
When the first German bombers drone in over Belfast, Gavin is enthralled at the prospect of the adult world's destruction. "Come on, Hitler, blow up city hall" cries a leftist friend. "And Queen's University!" shrieks Gavin But in a qualm of conscience, he rushes back to...