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There is a sad tradition, however, of successful humorists writing sequels. Ring Lardner took the hero of You Know Me, Al to the battlefields of France, and Stephen Potter, the creator of Gamesmanship, descended to writing gamesman's rules as advertisements for soft drinks. True to the tradition, Dr. Peter has now written The Peter Prescription, subtitled How to Make Things Go Right, and sub-subtitled Sixty-Six Formulas for Improving the Quality of Your Life...
...despoiling the vines or eating holes in Spartan boys there is much to be said about foxes. Foxes are smart. Foxes are vulpine. Foxes have pointy noses and an air of unassailable RED FOX sagacity. There are three great books about foxes. Probably the best known is Beatrix Potter's Tale of Mister Tod, in which the protagonist proves to be fastidious but cowardly. A second, now unhappily out of print, is Alexander Sturm's The Problem Fox, a sly cartoon biography of a precocious animal named August who solves food mazes and learns to spell his name...
...four dissenters had such a variety of objections that they all filed opinions. Said Thurgood Marshall: "The reasonable-doubt rule establishes that the prosecutor must overcome all of the jury's reasonable doubts," which is hardly the case when he "has tried and failed to persuade [dissenting] jurors." Potter Stewart raised the issue of how a divided jury might split; now, he said, "nine jurors can simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class." William Douglas argued that the loss of unanimity means that "if a necessary majority is immediately obtained, then...
Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter. The Royal Ballet in animal constumes. Quiney Dining Hall...
Traditionally, a lawsuit claims damage or injury to the plaintiff. In rejecting the Sierra Club's action last week. Justice Potter Stewart, writing for the 4-to-3 majority, observed that the group had failed to argue that it or any of its members would be "significantly affected." Instead, they had tried to do "no more than vindicate their own value preferences...