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...even the three days of jury selection that preceded this trial could eliminate anti-abortion sentiment from the panel. Another parochial sensibility was apparently active in their considerations. Even if Edelin is no killer, he is black. One juror quoted another as saying. "That nigger is guilty as sin." Apparently, some of the jurors viewed Edelin's race as a crime in itself. Furthermore the jury dealt with the judge's instructions haphazardly, substituting, for his stipulation that it must find Edelin guilty of "wanton and reckless" conduct in order to convict, its own speculation that he might have been...
...pumps for devotion inspired by awe and terror ("Mop up spilt religion! Let us have it in its original stony jars or not at all!"). At the same time he pushes graphic, adulterous sex as suburbia's best anodyne; coupling is sweetest with the ashen taste of sin. He sees women chiefly as attractive hurdles in the heavenly sweepstakes, where all the runners are male...
...this, Johnson sometimes denounced bugging as if it were original sin. "The worst thing in our society would be to not be able to pick up a phone for fear of it being tapped," he told one of his men. "I don't want any wiretapping," he said when he was designing the Safe Streets Act. However, Senator John McClellan talked him into including a provision for wiretapping. The Congress then provided more authority than agreed upon, so Johnson ordered the Justice Department not to use that power...
...Balzacian novel from which John and Maureen Dean sprang is now reaching a richly ironic climax. Freed from prison after serving only four months of his one-to four-year Watergate sentence, John hurried home to Mo in Los Angeles to tot up the wages of sin. There was the $350,000 advance from Simon & Schuster for hard-cover rights to John's account of life with Nixon, and the same publisher's undisclosed advance to Mo for her version of life with John. Then there is John's lecture tour, which starts...
...pronouncements," to "do a drop by" occasional faculty functions so as to "show the flag"--can obscure the style that makes them so enjoyable. It obscures the allusions to literature ("They, for the most part, are also non-College. Worse yet, they are also non-Harvard. What greater sin could one commit in Lilliputia?"), religion ("Pusey was viewed as a stern Puritan who could raise money and handle things"), and political analysis ("I am sure the faculty would call it 'anti-intellectualism.' We can see it in such areas of society as disenchanted students, angry congressmen, disappointed parents, Gallup polls...