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...town and taken up the carpenter's trade and produced all this strange variety of ornament: the rising (or setting?) sun shape, the cart-wheel, the star pattern, the pagoda like shapes or one we just called the Spruce St. Variety. There's probably a folk-art monograph and foundation grant in it: "Varieties of the Eave Ornament in the Southeastern U.S. 1880-1920." With color pictures. Out of boredom we began classifying types and snapping a few pictures--to the disbelief and irritation of women on porches who thought we were photographing something going on behind upper story windows...
...place even had castellated edging around the rim of a flat roof and an obviously home-made, handy-andy porch pretending to be a gate-house; every man's home his castle. Note to monograph; Reminiscent of old Mr. Wemmick in Great Expectations with his miniature castle, moat, and drawbridge. Home-made: There were efforts to make house homes like the initialled screen doors on plain white houses the mill had built not far away...
...undoubtedly familiar with my monograph," continued Holmes loftily, "entitled 'Uses and Abuses of Various West German Tape Recorders.' " "Actually, I don't have time for much light reading," replied the Secretary...
...left-wing journal Amerasia, he alerted his superiors, touching off a surreptitious investigation. The investigation culminated in a nighttime raid of the magazine's offices, where government agents seized piles of documents. Some of these dispatches (plus many others, as John S. Service observes in an excellent monograph on his own published reports) were collected in 1970 under the title, The Amerasia Papers, and this occasion provided Professor Kubek with an opportunity to direct another attack at those men who reported from China during...
...District Court Judge Marvin Frankel. After seven years on the federal bench in New York City, Frankel found himself appalled by "the unbridled power of the sentencers [including himself] to be arbitrary and discriminatory." He considered the problem in his off-the-bench time, then produced an informative monograph closely analyzing what is wrong with the current approach and suggesting what can be done to repair it. Published last month, Criminal Sentences/Law Without Order (Hill & Wang; $5.95) is a cogent, sometimes savage commentary...