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...then, journalists, political cartoonists, legal experts, laymen and legislators have launched a barrage of criticism against the insanity plea in criminal proceedings. Many are frustrated to the point of fearing. "It's become a big game. You can get away with anything if you just pretend you're nuts." Implicit in the cynicism is a clear message: reform the use of the "not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity" plea...
...return to the laws of the old South," says Orlando Patterson professor of sociology. Although no formal rule mandating it exists he says the net effect is that the cases of Blacks get talked about. While the cases of whites do not. "It's implicit racism," he says...
...seem to acquire in the fall: "As you walk beside them after school, they tighten their arms about their books and bend their heads forward to give a more flattering attention to your words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell...
Beck's analysis of his increased commitment to the Church during freshman year provides a rare glimpse into one possible aspect of missions: that of implicit coercion. "My family had expected me to go on a mission since birth, and of course that was one of the reasons I started thinking about it." Beck says. "It's hard to say, but I think even if I hadn't gotten more deeply involved I would have done a mission." Peer and parental presure in favor of missions are great among Mormon communities...
...magic" of Woody Allen is at once an appropriate title and an indication of the task implicit in the subject. Those who want a methodical compilation of transcribed Allen jokes may as well turn to Getting Even or Without Feathers; that way, at least, they'll be spared the anxious author's attempts to supply context, justification and an inexorable order of development. Running as far toward the present as Stardust Memories, the book obviously cannot address Allen's latest, but the flaw is less than it might be, for no great effort of imagination is needed to deduce what...