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...would like to have our protest sharper and more general," Monro said. "I feel it isn't effective for us to make protests outside the area of our own immediate concern and involvement. When you work with the federal government you usually have to compromise somehow...
Individual episodes in Herzog are brilliant; Bellow can wring a rare pathos out of the most unlikely, unlovely material: scenes of common, everyday, squalid home life, with the kids sniffling, the wash on the line and mommy savaging daddy. No one, in fact, slices life with a sharper eye than Bellow. But on the whole, the new novel is disappointing. Moses E. Herzog, teacher-scholar, is everybody's door mat. Things happen to him; he does nothing. He is tossed out of his own home by his wife and her lover. He is bullied by lawyers, psychiatrists, cops...
...thee-thy-thou forms. Nevertheless they slipped up: the Lord's Prayer still goes, "Thy kingdom come." Other parts have a ring of transliteration, rather than translation, from Latin. "Priests who translate the Mass have a tendency to use Latin derivatives, whereas Anglo-Saxon is generally shorter and sharper," said one Benedictine monk...
...sharper is the criticism of many lawyers and judges that juvenile courts are "protecting" delinquents right out of their basic constitutional rights. Because juvenile proceedings are said to be "noncriminal," delinquents in many states have been regularly deprived of bail, lawyers, juries, the right to exclude hearsay evidence, and the right to public trial...
...from assault and battery to extortion, Paulie Muller was sentenced to five years in prison, while Hans the Swine drew a four-year term and others of the dozen defendants received fines and shorter jail terms. A young blonde in a green sweater sobbed quietly, while a nattily dressed sharper muttered:"It's a damned dirty trick, putting Paulie away...