Word: lewises
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Norman Lewis
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 in favor of the snail darter's right to life. Wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger: "The plain intent of Congress was to halt and reverse the trend toward extinction." In dissent, Justice Lewis Powell noted dryly that this meant...
Another approach has been adopted by the California-based National Tax-Limitation Committee. Its aim is to place ceilings on the spending powers of the states by amending their constitutions. This drive has been successful in Tennessee, where 65% of the voters approved it last March. Once the dust settles...
Objects for acidulous social criticism can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The hand belongs to Edward Sorel, a chiaroscuro cartoonist in the merciless tradition of Daumier and Thomas Nast. With a pen dipped in corrosive sublimate, Sorel uncovers the Presidents from Harry Truman as a Keystone Kop...
Amis also shows a knack for presenting familiar poets in unfamiliar guises. He dutifully includes not only Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky but also a dead-on parody of Hiawatha: ("From his shoulder Hiawatha/ Took the camera of rosewood-/ Made of sliding, folding rosewood ..."). A.E. Housman's familiar Hellenic...