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...State constitutions should be shorn of "limitations that prevent constructive legislative and executive action" and of the hundreds of absurdly inconsequential statutes that now encumber many of them. North Carolina's constitution, for example, prohibits male and female prisoners from sharing the same jail cell. Alabama's and South Carolina's provide for the disenfranchisement of wife beaters. New York's has a provision stipulating the width of ski trails. - State legislatures should never have more than 100 members (tiny New Hampshire has 424, or one for every 1,500 inhabitants); they should receive salaries...
Shylock's daughter, who elopes with the Christian Lorenzo, gives the impression, as played by Maria Tucci, of treating her Jewish heritage very lightly. Before you know it, she appears wearing a crucifix, and crosses herself as to the manner born and of the manna shorn. Jack Ryland's Lorenzo, moreover, is hardly worth the trouble of eloping with...
...caps. One reason that hats are back on top is that there is suddenly much less hair underneath. Short hair cuts, among them what Parisians call le Farrow and I'Artichaut, are replacing the elaborate bouffant hairdos that made hats hard to wear. Paris' Alexandre has already shorn Elizabeth Taylor, Queen Sirikit of Thailand, Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. And while Elsa Martinelli, Sophia Loren and Jean Shrimpton have so far resisted the shears, they are all tucking their hair under short wigs to achieve a similar effect. Manhattan's Kenneth, who gained fame as the architect...
...that a growing boy normally directs against his male parent. The authors state flatly that Wilson "never had a fist fight in his life" and did not participate in sports or games of any kind, although they contradict themselves later. Bullitt and Freud insist that Wilson grew up virtually shorn of the traits of manliness; his use of gentle persuasion rather than forcefulness was to them a sure sign that feminine characteristics had taken the upper hand...
...autocratic kingdoms, but it is scarcely so under constitutional monarchy. According to a widespread psychiatric view, constitutional monarchs represent parents who are always reassuringly present without, however, curbing a people's freedom. They thus embody the continuity and unity that is lacking in so much of modern life. Shorn now of the military ambitions and political self-seeking that made so many of them the scourge of the world, they seem to be reverting to their ancient magical role...