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...rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish . . . Nonsense . . . Shame" greeted his protest; and Laborite...
...Maverick Justice. Thenceforward he was to look from one window of the law after the other, finally arriving in 1902 at the high, broad casement of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sixty-one, he counted on about ten more years of active service. Twenty-nine years later he was still on the bench...
Having been a maverick philosopher who strayed into law, Holmes increasingly became a maverick justice who strayed into philosophy. His skepticism ("The skeptic cannot be a pessimist") brought him into conflict with the uncritical optimism of those liberals and progressives who claimed him for their own. Said he: "I believe that the wholesale social regeneration which so many now seem to expect . . . cannot be affected appreciably by tinkering with the institution of property, but only by taking in hand life. . . . The notion that with socialized property we should have women free and a piano for everybody seems...
...Uncertainty. The quotations from these early-American rugged optimists make the broad plains of later American thought look barren. The Beards in the part of the book devoted to the 19th Century choose quotations to illustrate the various facets of American civilization, including the works of many an intellectual maverick, from Frederick Turner's theory of the frontier to Admiral Mahan's theories of the influence of sea power. Mahan's faith in a British and American crusade committing the U.S. to a "world-spanning imperialist mission in the name of Christ and civilization" is posed against...
John Andrew Rice is a maverick among U.S. educators. By his own account, only one man ever understood him-old Philosopher John Dewey. A stormy petrel wherever he taught, Dr. Rice quarreled with the University of Nebraska, was kicked out of Rollins College (TIME, June 19, 1933), two years ago abruptly severed relations with his own dream college, North Carolina's Black Mountain. Now the professor is back in the news with a Harper prize book, I Came Out of the 18th Century ($3). His brooding, mordant autobiography reveals him as a brilliant critic of teaching and an acid...