Word: samuels
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Last Friday the Committee for Birch Bayh released the endorsements of Samuel H. Beer '43, professor of Government, Lance M. Liebman professor of Law, James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law, and Walter J. McCann, Jr. '63, chairman of Programs and Administration, Planning and Social Policy...
...United Mine Workers' union leader Jock Yablonski, warns: "It would really attack the fundamentals of criminal law, which holds an individual responsible for his actions. If this happens, you are going to be turning the criminal courtroom into a psychiatrist's couch." Georgetown University Law Professor Samuel Dash, the majority counsel for the Senate Watergate hearings, believes brainwashing falls "somewhere in-between" the two traditional legal defenses for felonies-inability to determine right from wrong and extreme duress-and does not quite qualify for acquittal under either of them...
...Samuel Johnson's two-volume dictionary was published in 1755, just four years after the first volume of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedic, that great compendium of information and Enlightenment opinion, had appeared in Paris. The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica began appearing in Edinburgh in 1768. The colonists knew and valued these works; indeed, I'Encyclopédie was among the most popular of all the books imported for colonial libraries. Information was instrumental to human happiness; education was meant to serve progress and political stability; and news, after all, was only one category of information...
...manic-depression-a violent swing of moods from mind-racing euphoria to utter despair. Some doctors feel that lithium is being touted so hard that programs such as Maude may cause a public clamor for lithium to combat both severe depression and simple cases of the blues. Says Dr. Samuel Gershon of New York University's Medical School, who has done extensive research with the drug: "Manic-depression is what it should be used for, and that's not a common disease...
Your speculation that the soaps might be regarded as heirs to the 18th century picaresque romantic novel or to Defoe's Moll Flanders defies belief. Samuel Richardson-author of Pamela and Clarissa-has an ironclad patent on the myths and psychological devices of today's soaps...