Word: saxonism
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French justice, based on the Napoleonic Code, has long been viewed with cynicism by its friends and alarm by disciples of Anglo-Saxon procedures. "The Code exists to protect society from the criminal, not to protect the criminal from judicial error," explains one French expert. "We run our courts to convict the guilty, not to acquit the innocent." Last week the case of a Nantes stevedore, only the most recent of a series of setbacks of justice, touched off a storm of indignation...
...babies. But the ladies shared some of the week's agony. The General Electric Theater offered Johnnie Ray, the crybaby singer, in a drama about an emotional vocalist named Johnnie Pulaski who nobly spurned fame and fortune because his boss wanted him to sing under an Anglo-Saxon stage name...
Beowulf rides again in William Alfred's "Early English Literature," English 100a, meeting in Longfellow 110. Following Anglo-Saxon writing from 540 to 1054, Alfred will emphasize poetry and early conceptions of the hero. No knowledge of Old English is required...
...book links the right to refuse to testify with the abolition of torture "For three centuries this principle has been one of the fundamental decencies of the Angle-Saxon system...
...most dangerous and wicked results of this disease is the destruction of confidence - confidence that honest, capa ble and devoted service will be rewarded as such . . . confidence that the precious Anglo-Saxon tradition of due process will be observed...