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Historians and political scientists with long memories contend that Congress has often been ponderous, frustratingly slow and unharnessable. Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's sensational, Depression-generated 100 days, a Democratic-controlled Congress soon reverted to its traditional friction with the White House, leading F.D.R. to com plain about its mulishness...
...best scenes are not so much ridiculous, as just plain nasty: Pavlova belts out "Fashion," strutting across the stage or pouting like a cranky child. Dean Norris pulls the microphone lead sinuously through his crotch, as he leers evilly into space. At least it looks like space from the audience. Who knows what he thinks he's looking at. For that matter, who knows what any of this really means. And, who the hell knows what the Pavlova family had in mind when they named their talented daughter...
...step further--to observe that, in the context of Harvard University and any other serious school, a certain edge must be accorded free speech. The right of opposition, while recognized, is not quite equivalent to it, as Prof. Dershowitz intimates. Since the mid-1960s the experience has been plain enough ideological military among the Left, feminists, black ethnocentrists. Third Worlders, the Right, and Jewish ethnocentrists display little appreciation of the delicate states of free speech in our type of pluralist society. These ideological militants must have it brought home to them that their right of opposition, often either hinting...
...critical ingredient is the quality of mind the essayist impresses on the work. Of course, this is no different from any form of literary expression Yet, the personal essay differs from the short story in the way it communicates its truth a difference which roughly mirrors that between plain speech and storytelling. Even the most inept can usually keep from bludgeoning beyond recognition the moral of a good story aided, as the storyteller is by the imaginations of his listeners. Finding someone who can convey a similar message out of the clods of rough earth or his own experience...
...their trial judges had given improper instructions to the jury. None of their lawyers had objected on that ground at the trial. The three said they were nevertheless entitled to federal review of their convictions via habeas corpus petitions if they could show that the judges' actions constituted "plain error." But O'Connor, relying on a 1977 Rehnquist opinion, held them to a tougher test. They must, she said, show good cause for not having raised the issue during the regular trial and appeal process, and they must show that the trial error resulted in actual prejudice...