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...crank him up again." Having taken the lead too early, he has deliberately slowed the pace of his presidential campaign. But his supporters are convinced that once he begins campaigning, he will prove, as he has three times in Michigan, that he is a tireless, dynamic and nigh unbeatable stumper...
...blind man knows the cuckoo,/By the bad voice." -- is far from the witticism she intends. Her confidante Nerissa, as Marian Hailey plays her, comes over as rather strident. Jerry Dodge tries hard as young Gobbo, and Tom Lacy vastly overplays old Gobbo; it is, anyhow, well-nigh impossible to salvage their scene, which is one of the unfunniest comic scenes ever written by a genius...
...problem of also giving them a sense of morality is either relatively uncomplicated or well-nigh impossible, depending on what one means by morality. What many designers of sex-education courses have in mind is "situation ethics." Its tenets are well expressed by Dr. Alan Guttmacher, veteran fighter for planned parenthood. "I think all we ask of our young generation," he recently told a Manhattan audience of 10th-and 12th-graders, "is a feeling of sexual responsibility. Don't enter premarital sex lightly. Enter it after deep and searching thought. If in doubt-don't. You have...
...tape-recorded words violated the Fifth Amendment as well, because the Government can thereby "make a man talk against his will." And suppose the tape is "rigged" by skillful editing? That trick may be virtually undetectable, warned Douglas; yet his brethren have now approved Osborn-style bugging as "well-nigh conclusive proof...
...basic concern of Williams' is the trend away from criminal law. "Trial lawyers are a vanishing breed," he says, "and criminal trial lawyers are well nigh extinct." Top lawyers in firms are concerned only with money matters, he believes, and much of the blame rests with the law schools themselves. One survey he cites shows that only seven out of 502 students polled after the first year of law school were favorably disposed to criminal law. For Williams, it has become a mission to travel among law schools, telling students to use himself as an example and skip the corporation...