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...something that I felt compelled to do; because I see certain things I don't wish to see in the black movement that people are involved in, and that is, to deal with things in the same superficial manner that white people deal with things, to never probe beneath the surface to get at the gear, the mechanisms of things. So I did the book and it may well be that all of these things will fall upon my head. But I'm only sorry I did it in terms of the unease that it's caused my family...
...Columbia Law School ('26), where he was an editor of the Law Review and earned his way by teaching at City College. In 1935, after nine years of general law practice in Wall Street, Fuld joined Tom Dewey, then a crime-busting special prosecutor, in his famous probe of New York City rackets. With his appetite for hard work (he still toils 14 hours a day), Fuld became the Dewey team's specialist in deflating the complex legal defenses raised by the underworld's lawyers. In the probe's 2½ years, recalled Dewey, "every indictment...
...Justice is seeking indictments against 24 Mayday organizers, Deputy Attorney General R. chard G. Kleindienst announced Wednesday. Three "Chicago Eight" defendants, Rennie Davis, John Froines. and Abbie Hoffman, are expected to be among these indicted. If they are indicted, a grand jury will be impaneled later this month to probe charges of conspiracy, plotting a riot, and other Federal crimes...
...tragic, demonic will to harpoon fate. Ahab v. the first mate Starbuck, the man of reason, forms the main line of conflict. Starbuck has signed on to hunt whales, not to pursue Ahab's monomaniacal revenge. Melville means us to know that when a man sets out to probe the secrets of the universe, he is far past reason, just as the seafaring Renaissance explorers went far past their maps...
...intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere beyond the reach of the intellect." In Swann's Way, it was a tea-soaked petite madeleine that touched off the hero's long-forgotten childhood memories. In the scientific world, the stimulus is sometimes a surgeon's probe. Montreal Surgeon Wilder Penfield, for example, while performing operations under local anesthesia, by chance found brain sites that when stimulated electrically led one patient to hear an old tune, another to recall an exciting childhood experience in vivid detail, and still another to relive the experience of bearing her baby. Penfield...