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...Potter Stewart, retired Supreme Court Justice, on increasing the court's membership to lighten the work load: "I don't think that would solve the problem. Life on the court would have been a lot simpler for me if I had no colleagues...
After the days of public celebration, the induction of the newest Justice began in private with an absence of pomp. In the court's conference room, before the President and Nancy Reagan, her fellow Brethren, retiring Justice Potter Stewart, and her sons, O'Connor placed her right hand on two O'Connor family Bibles held by her husband John. She repeated the judicial oath to "do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
...most controversial is 101 Uses for a Dead Cat (Clarkson N. Potter, $2.95), which has sold 600,000 copies since publication last April and has headed the trade paperback bestseller list for twelve straight weeks. It is a collection of mordant and often macabre cartoons by English Artist Simon Bond, who is violently allergic to living cats but has no end of ingenious notions for recycling cadavers. The Charles Addams of ailurophobia, he sees deceased tabbies as admirable substitutes for more conventional objects ranging from anchors to wine holders (not to mention cat's cradles...
...Mogaill, Roary Rua, Gimp Gillespie, Old Crubog and the Englishman Potter down their Guinnesses under Roarty's suspicious eye and argue why earthworms are scarce and if a doe hare drops her kits all in one den. Roarty's bizarre attempts to unveil his blackmailer also reveal the tragicomedy of the Other Ireland. Locals fight the design of a new church-"a cube surmounted by a cone"-and investigate a blackguard who steals the priest's maid's knickers from the wash line. Without the precisely plotted mystery, this might merely be another scenic tour...
...only a good-natured amateurism, but also an appreciation of an apprentice about to embark on a journey. Piers jocularly proclaims, "I'm absolutely dreadful. I tried pottery and all the different processes in the factory, but it really takes an awfully long time to become an accomplished potter, decorator, and ornamenter. Within our factory we have fourth and fifth generation potters and decorators. It is a talent that is inherent...