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...which the Fifth unquestionably applies, routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. On arrest, a federal prisoner must be arraigned forthwith before the neatest U.S. commissioner and supplied with a lawyer if he cannot afford one-all of which upholds the constitutional guarantee against serf-incrimination...
...battle counts as nothing compared to the lust inspired in him by a winsome peasant girl, Rosemary Forsyth. He needs her, he explains, as he needs bread, sunshine, fire in winter. Honor. Well, blast honor. He claims the lass on the very day of her marriage to a husky serf, invoking the ancient droit du seigneur whereby a nobleman may claim ''the right of the first night" with any bride in his domain. The local priest (Maurice Evans) fusses a bit, suggesting that he choose another virgin, but his lordship will have none of them...
...student he spoke of the assassination at Sarajevo, then switched to the problems of peasant revolution for the May 2nd crowd. He told jokes in Italian about the Bulgarians, and chatted in English (with occasional Russian) about the Partisan War. An Eastern European whose father was born the peasant serf of a Turkish bey, he smiled a little when slipping in words like "hip" and "camp." He felt at home...
Turning Ideals. Prawdin leaves the reader with the haunting notion that perhaps some kind of devil is the spiritual father of Soviet Communism. Sergei Nechaev, son of a serf, grew up in St. Petersburg at a time when poor students chafed and brooded under Russia's vast and manifest injustices. Ideals of universal love, liberty and truth gained currency among the crust-fed scholars of the imperial universities. It was Nechaev's peculiar vocation to batten upon these noble spirits and convert their intentions into their logical and ethical opposites-hatred, subservience and lies. With the energy given...
There was a serf who led a very unfortunate life. His landlord, pretending to goodness, gave him a lot overgrown with wood. "Work it," he said, "and it shall be yours...