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...Odious General Warrant. Dissents were violent. Wrote Justice Murphy: "The Court today has resurrected and approved, in effect, the use of the odious general warrant or writ of assistance." Most crimes, he pointed out, have connected with them some small object, and a search for it inevitably becomes a general exploratory ransacking...
...people everywhere that we are fighting for human rights against the police state. We are just as sure to lose if we think that the "human rights" argument is to be used only when strategic interests are at stake. You simply cannot argue that Tito's regime is odious whereas Zervas is a Jeffersonian Democrat...
After having been skilfully battered into the most odious of film categories, the movie biography has had its face lifted by Columbia in "The Jolson Story," and emerges almost unrecognizable and completely vindicated. Jolson himself recorded the songs, and he still packs more life, rhythm, and excitement, note for note, than any other singer around. Combined with Larry Parks' delivery, which old-time Broadwayites claim to be phenomenally like that of the man who was the biggest boxoffice draw of his times, Jolson's voice accounts for the excellence of about half the picture...
Americans object if a man is considered superior merely because of his wealth, and yet we use this measurement of nations. History taught in our lower schools leads to faulty thinking, by whitewashing our part in wars, and calling our imperialism by less odious names. . . . Finally, we are too quick to think ourselves a Santa Claus when we give a trifle out of our plenty...
Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...