Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawyers, Mayer...
...Mayer gives few hints of where the paths are, and for a would-be guide, that lack is crippling...
Unfortunately, the facts are pretty numbing. The Lawyers has not so much been written as it has been compiled; the reader can all but see Mayer doggedly arranging his 3-by-5 index cards so that not one piece of information escapes. The result is an intrusively disjointed style. Paragraphs often do not mesh; chapters hardly ever do. The failing was no doubt exacerbated by the fact that parts of chapters appeared in five magazines as varied as Harper's, Redbook and TV Guide. Still, Mayer needs an editor; he ingests better than he digests. On occasion, he even...
Actually, the only way to make fair sense of American law is to plumb the ramifications of one important case, the strategy so impressively followed by Anthony Lewis in Gideon's Trumpet (1964). Grand surveys usually get nowhere; "law" is almost entirely a case-by-case proposition. As Mayer himself says, "Law is a process, not a thing...
...same, Author Mayer has come away with more faith in the law than many lawyers. Says he: "The rest of us put up with the arrogance of the lawyers-accept their, rigidities, their partial perceptions, their occasional corruption, their portentous self-praise, their cant, their infernal waste of time -not because we care about the niceties or even the creative accomplishments of the legal system, but because we sense, we hope,' that the law seeks justice...