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...ever there has been a looser construction of the Constitution in this court's history," said Justice Hugo Black in a blistering ad lib accompanying his written dissent, "I fail to think what it is." Black drew a sharp distinction between the protected rights of poor criminal defendants brought to court against their will and the private, civil claims of the impoverished who come into court on their own. Black predicted that the decision will encourage divorces at taxpayers' expense and lead to a future court-imposed right to counsel for the poor in divorce and other civil...
ALAS, a lot of water's gone under the bridge since 1956. Those British who sadly watched the resolution of the Suez War have been getting pleasure and revenge in watching the rise and fall of another empire. And the more successful rad-lib playwrights and filmmakers found national values immutable and moved on to Hollywood...
...semantic aphasia examined so far might be diagnosed as a hysterical compulsion to simplify. Whether pushing fluoride toothpaste or Women's Lib, the rhetoric tends to begin, rather than end, at an extreme. But there is a second, quite different variety of the disease: overcomplication. It damages the language less spectacularly but no less fatally than oversimplification. Its practitioners are commonly known as specialists. Instead of unjustified clarity they offer unjustified obscurity. Whether his discipline is biophysics or medieval Latin, the specialist jealously guards trade secrets by writing and speaking a private jargon that bears only marginal resemblances...
...Harvard Square resident, a fairly recent grad, and not quite an establishmentarian yet. Howeveh, I was a little put off at your treatment of my ex-landlord Richard Dow. "Tony" is not any rad-lib, even though his son is a genuine freak, but he is a pleasant curmudgeon. During the time we rented from him over the Billings and Stover store, we thought that he'd go mad with us hairy freaks running all over the building. But he remained as pleasant as he could, and when a broken pipe in the wall doused our office, he gave...
...agree with women's lib and I would like to be involved but I just don't have the time." Channing said. "I don't see any conflict between what I do and women's lib. Hello Dolly was a wheeler-dealer matchmaker and just as smart as any man. You couldn't say I was a dumb blond in that show anyway, because she was a redhead...