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...looks like a casting director's choice for the job-plump, bald, ruddy, even a little belligerent. At 70, age has not withered his stern skills nor staled his colorful style. But now, after 23 years on the bench, New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Simon Leibowitz finds himself before the bar as a defendant, his very qualifications to serve the law subject to review by a panel of his peers...
Having reached the mandatory retirement age, Judge Leibowitz applied for an extension of his term. By tradition, approval should have been almost automatic. So much about high-court New York judgeships is automatic that it is a tradition around the courthouse that they all but offer a lifetime job. Election to one 14-year term carries a virtual promise of endorsement by both political parties should the judge decide to run again...
Unforgivable Error. The harsh charge called up memories of a life of outspoken advocacy and fierce controversy. A Brooklynite, whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Rumania in 1897, Sam Leibowitz went to Cornell Law School and became a dramatically successful criminal lawyer. In the 1920s and '30s, his roster of clients included some of the country's most notorious hoods-Al Capone, Kid Twist Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. He fought for the Mad Dog Killer and the Bread Knife Murderess, and of more than 100 defendants charged with first-degree murder, Sam saved...
...patron saint, the Blessed Martyr Leibowitz (canonized in the course of the novel), was an electronics engineer strangled and roasted alive by the mob in the anti-scientist massacres following the Flame Deluge. Among the memorabilia which the monastery preserves are scraps of books and diagrams that gradually result in the rediscovery of electricity and other appurtenances of the "Golden Age'' of the 20th century. Proud as Jove, the blind earthlings hurl the megatons all over again. At novel's end, a picked band of the monks, bravely singing old space chanteys, boards a "starship" for outer...
...communicating a kind of post-human lunar landscape of disaster. His faith in religious faith is commendable but not compelling. It is difficult to tell whether he believes that better bomb shelters or more Roman Catholics are the hope of the world. On the flyleaf of Canticle for Leibowitz, Novelist Miller writes, "A dedication is only a scratch where it itches." Intellectually speaking, so is his book...