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During his six years on the North Carolina supreme court, Ervin gained a reputation for making sound judgments and writing clear, well-reasoned decisions. His aim, he says, was to "write decisions that didn't need interpretation," which are a rarity on many courts. Ervin is proudest of his role in the case of a black man who had been convicted of raping a white woman. Suspicious, Ervin pored over the trial's 1,200 pages of testimony, decided that the evidence was inconclusive, and had the man freed. The Senator still recalls what the relieved but resigned...
...proudest moment probably came eight years ago, when Hoffa was convicted in federal court of jury tampering (there was subsequent conviction for fraud). Sheridan wants the nation to remember the judge's pronouncement at that time: Hoffa, the court declared, was guilty of "having tampered, really, with the very soul of the nation." Yet The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa is not at all a polemic. Rather it is a bulging catalogue of fact and insight that is altogether persuasive...
...instinctively dislikes rough, rugged ritual should never attempt to become a writer--or anything else. In all walks of life we read of the topmost men in this country, or any country, whose proudest boast is that they "came up the hard way"--through their dogged study and application of the three r's--and they don't mean just reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Anything worth while is worth fighting for and if we lack intestinal fortitude we had better resign ourselves to sitting in Widener and admiring the derring-do of such giants as King Arthur, Walter Lippmann...
...Nixon also had a strained simile for explaining the difference between himself and George McGovern. America, said the President, was building the proudest, tallest building in the world. The opposition says," 'Because the windows are broken, tear it down and start again.' We say, 'Replace the windows and keep building.' " George McGovern later compounded that rather precarious image with an even more dubious one. Nixon was trying to build "a palace for the privileged few," said McGovern. Rather than tear anything down, the Democrats want to "restore that temple to the ancient truths." They both sounded...
David B. Durk, LL.D., Amherst class of '57, New York police sergeant. Your college greets you with the proudest title of all, "a good cop." You expand our imagination of what a man educated here might do to achieve a more decent and a more humane society...