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...high court also did itself a favor. In a ruling that may make litigants think twice about wasting the justices' efforts on hopeless appeals, they implemented a 1980 rule for the first time. Former Student Elmo Tatum, in a series of unsuccessful legal maneuvers labeled "entirely without merit" by a lower court, sued the University of Nebraska on a housing grievance. In a terse order, not only did the court turn down his appeal, it made him pay $500 in damages. Although the amount was modest, the message seemed clear: the court appears to be getting tougher on what...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key. "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
Sometimes it is hard to take Irene Selznick too seriously-but only sometimes. A Private View is the story of how a bright, spunky tomboy from a beach-front house in Santa Monica surmounted advantages and an insufferable marriage to become independent and a successful Broadway producer. Only a hopeless churl could fail to see that behind the privilege and luxury is a woman of uncommon perseverance and good sense...
Ordinarily, it is simply assumed that a first-term President will run for reelection, even if his prospects seem as dubious as those of Jimmy Carter-or, for that matter, as hopeless as those of Herbert Hoover. But Reagan would be the first President to be less than three weeks shy of his 78th birthday when he finished a second term. And he does not feel the driving personal ambition that would make re-election a psychological necessity...
...modern technology, high budgets, and advanced science, Anderson's highly bureaucratized health machine is really no better than the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital, and Anderson offers no suggestions as to how to improve either. All he seems to do is point out that while the modern condition is inherently hopeless, at least in Britannia Hospital you'll die laughing...