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In fact, just such a device-or one mighty similar to it-was specially ordered by Holy Peters in The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, a Sherlock Holmes short story.
Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, constitutional lawyer, and legal historian last night offered 20 people at a Leverett House American Studies Table anecdotal descriptions of the Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Felix Frankfurter and Louis D. Brandeis.
Freund portrayed Holmes as a "skeptical" and "pragmatic" person who nevertheless tolerated the flaws he saw in the law-making process. Holmes was "pre-Existential," Freund said, in his conception of living as "not belief in a cause but giving one's self to a cause which one only dimly...
There still seems to be a surfeit of criticism, not much of it loving. Explained Eleanor Holmes Norton, 39, New York City Commissioner of Human Rights: "We are drunk on the notion that America progressively gets better. We fail to see that because the world is more complicated, this great...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, New York City human rights commissioner: I grew up in Washington, D.C. Both of my parents had gone to college-the hard way, but they had gone. I was the oldest of three girls. While we were children the second and third were always closer. They ran...