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...originally moved for a directed verdict," Homans said yesterday, "because there was no proof for the accusations," adding that he had asked McGuire to "define abortion by the appropriate standards, and to instruct the jury this way, but his instruction did not come until the end of the trial...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Supreme Court Overrules Edelin Conviction Charges | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Status Pole. In this mood, Wolfe can delight and instruct. But he omits the possibility that people can dress or act for reasons that have nothing to do with climbing or sliding down the status pole. Altruism, love and compassion seem excluded by his highly stylized determinism. Those who dismiss Wolfe do so at just this point. If he were sent to cover the Crimean War, would he not send back a dispatch describing Florence Nightingale's uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Generation Gaffes | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Freund then spoke of Brandeis, for whom he clerked after graduating from the Law School in 1932. Brandeis was a "moralist," Freund said, who "wrote opinions not to pierce the mind, but to instruct and overwhelm" with their weight...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Freund Speaks At Leverett On 3 Justices | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...enable our children to learn something," said one Soweto council member. "We have met the Afrikaans requirement by using it to teach such subjects as gardening, where the important thing is to show students what to do, not tell them. In other subjects, the teachers instruct first in Zulu, then spout Afrikaans while the students copy down what they've heard in Zulu. The rule is Afrikaner nationalism gone berserk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: After Soweto, Anger and Unease | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...body which distinguishes male from female." Yet the persevering reader will discover, under the large heading of "Anatomy," sex organs of both the human male and female described at length and illustrated in five admirable engravings by Bell. In the 43 pages devoted to "Midwifery," the text could instruct the most distraught young husband snowbound in the country. All of it is illustrated by Bell's drawings?drawings so explicit that many subscribers have clipped them out of their volumes and destroyed them. Equally explicit is a drawing of Noah's ark, accompanied by elaborate calculations on the space needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Britannica | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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