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...violent transit strike. He got them acquitted. Before long he was vice president and general counsel of the Jamestown transit company. By the time he went to Washington, at 42, Jackson's abilities were widely recognized. His cases had included a $1,700,000 judgment, a hearing by lantern before a backwoods justice of the peace, and the defense of a Communist arrested for selling the Daily Worker on a public square. (Years later he wrote in a Supreme Court opinion that to disregard Communists' legal rights would be to "cast aside protection for the liberties of more...
Hundreds of years passed before they found Him-"an old man sawing wood" by the light of a dim lantern. "We are the life which you have brought forth," said the deputies. "We are all the living who have struggled and struggled, who have suffered and suffered, who have doubted and believed . . . What have you meant by us?" God "passed his hand through his lank gray hair" and answered meekly: "I am a simple man." "We can see that," said the deputies indignantly...
...Band are too fast and deafening to hold up to the very end, and the string of fantastic adventures grows increasingly limp and raveled. By then Cèline has, as always, succeeded in hammering his sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader's head. Spit-curled Cascade, lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen, but the insane metropolis "painted like fog with some...
...fare. Pausing briefly to glance at Tokyo's famed Thunder Gate, one group of 40 plunged into the Japanese capital's shopping district followed by a truck in which to carry their purchases back to the Imperial Hotel. One persistent matron spotted a decorative street lantern erected by the city in honor of the Cherry Festival. "I want that," she demanded, collaring a nearby shopkeeper. "I did not want to offend her," said the helpless Japanese, "but I could not sell her a municipal street decoration. After a moment, she gave me a look of unutterable disgust...
Except for the serum-stealing episode, Saadia has about as much plot and pace as a travelogue. Scenes follow each other like lantern slides, and the leading players recite their speeches in a sort of elocution-lesson English, apparently intended to suggest that they are speaking cultivated French. Cornel Wilde even groans in an Oxford accent. Mel Ferrer, an actor who appears to know better, seems sheepish most of the time, but Rita Gam at least manages to look like what the Hollywood wise guys have been calling her: the leg with a first name...