Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifth Amendment guarantees that "no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." It establishes a system of justice based on accusation, not inquisition; it commands the government to prove guilt by independent evidence, not by coercing proof out of the defendant's own mouth. So absolute is the privilege against self-incrimination in a trial that the defendant need not even take the stand. But what of police interrogation -the preliminary stage at which a suspect is pressed to make the very confession that may convict him at his trial...
...clearer by the intimation that one of Stephen's contemporaries, a freelance careerist of the emotions called Charlie, is the hero's Doppelgänger. It is even suggested that the story is Charlie's not Stephen's; thus, although written throughout in the first person, it should actually be in the second. If so, the moral of the story seems to be that a man cannot be trusted to write his own history, and that even his best friend will have trouble with his obituary. Is the don dead? And who donnit...
...same lawyer pointed out also that the Arizona oath which sought to "test" a person's loyalty differs greatly from the Massachusetts teachers' oath which merely seeks to "affirm" a person's loyalty...
...became a Harvard legend, for his creators never sought or received the fame of the Princeton undergraduates who got a non-existent student admitted to college. Most people who saw--and are still seeing--Stephen's name never had any idea that he had no body. Stephen's physical person consisted of the three minds of his creators and a stylized signature that any of them could duplicate...
Wald, professor of Biology, has completed a series of experiments which show that every color-blind person lacks one of three pigments basic to normal human color vision...