Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dana Wallace, 75, famed, criminal lawyer who made his most brilliant (but unsuccessful) defense in the celebrated Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray murder trial in 1927; of pleurisy; in Bay Shore, N.Y. His most dramatic jury-swaying trick: whipping off his spectacles (fitted with plain glass) at the height of a speech, smashing them "by accident" on the jury-box railing, brushing aside the fragments to let the jurors know that nothing mattered except his words...
...Barbary Shore-Norman Mailer...
...other hand, is far more active in securing the top applicants from MINNEAPOLIS and CLEVELAND, while Yale at present is attracting top students from SEATTLE and PORTLAND. Closer to home, Harvard alumni just last month organized a Harvard Club and a Schools Committee in the Massachusetts North Shore area, a section which Dartmouth has been combing for years...
...idea content, Barbary Shore is perched on the stilts of four fallacies: 1) that there is nothing to choose between the Russian "system" and the U.S. "system," 2) that the Russian Revolution was "betrayed," i.e., Lenin was O.K., but Stalin spoiled everything, 3) that the complex problem of evil is a simple matter of economic inequity, i.e., "empty bellies," and 4) that "men enter into social and economic relations independent of their wills...
Since there is no exit from the coming clash of the two "colossi," mankind is doomed to a long night of barbarism-i.e., a Barbary shore...