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...days later, Chief Justice Earl Warren, addressing the American Law Institute in Washington, offered an indirect defense. Said he: "We have every reason to believe that at the last session of this term we will be able to say, as the court has said every year since 1928, when it acquired the certiorari* jurisdiction, that all cases ready for argument have been heard and decided." But by Warren's own figures, Frankfurter had a point. At last reckoning, the Supreme Court had disposed of 1,415 cases during its present term, compared with 1,391 at the same stage...
...northern Nigeria to its knees. In 1900 the British proclaimed the region a protectorate. They ended the beheadings, the chopping off of hands and the slave trade, but they deliberately did not destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around to accepting self-government. Even today the emirs can appoint kadis (Moslem judges) with complete authority to fine, jail...
...pundits had already dismissed the Geneva meeting as "the useless conference." But most of the Western diplomats directly concerned believed they held at least one strong hole card: Nikita Khrushchev's seemingly overriding desire for a summit meeting. Trading on this, the U.S. had already served indirect notice that any Russian move during the conference to shut off Western access routes to Berlin, or even to sign a separate World War II peace treaty with its Communist East German satellite, would result in an immediate Western walkout at Geneva and an end to all hope for a later summit...
...left to God.' Do we leave birth to God?" Replied Roman Catholic Bishop George P. Dwyer of Leeds: "A doctor may give a drug to relieve pain, even if he foresees that the life of the patient may be shortened thereby . . . But death must always be indirect...
Ultimately, the story revolves around Manolios' effect on other people. With such a subject, the best description is indirect. Beside the dramatic use of crowds, Dassin traces individual characters. Although the entire cast performs laudably, the roles of Mary Magdelan and that of the Turkish Agha deserve special note, both for themselves and for the skill with which they are filled. The former experiences fully and convincingly the joys of virtue and of vice; the latter commits himself to detachment. Were his portrait drawn with less sympathy, a criticism of the Turk's detachment might be the biggest single answer...