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...scales shows a baby's face. He answers legal documents with pastel scrawls on colored construction paper. Recently, and with a little embarrassment, his lawyer turned the town's official notices over to the courts complete with an emblazoned DON'T TREAD ON ME and coiled snake -Pleuthner's art work and heartfelt response. Cocking his head, he says: "The people in Scarsdale may be wealthy, but esthetically, they're paupers...
...throw the dice and seven is showing, what is facing down? a) "Seven," b) "Snake eyes," c) "Box-cars," d) "Little Joes," e) "Eleven...
...year-old Senak, nicknamed "Snake," had been working on the vice squad for two months in July, 1967. He was devoted to police work, but the nature of his job had had an affect...
...Snake in Eden. Like a film running in reverse, Lynd's version of American history reels backward from the New Left to the Declaration of Independence -"the single most concentrated expression of the revolutionary intellectual tradition." Yet even in the beginning, Lynd observes critically, there was a snake in Eden. "Property, property! That is the difficulty!" cried John Adams upon rereading Rousseau's The Social Contract in the White House. "It was indeed," Lynd echoes. Even the radicals of 1776, he laments, believed that the best way to support individual freedom was by guaranteeing the rights of "property...
...their parents, their fury at the police and the courts, tempered by the knowledge that they could not do much about it. Above all, one could scarcely find, in journalism or in fiction, a more revealing portrait of a certain type of policeman. David Senak, 24, known as "Snake," served for a year and a half on the vice squad, and he apparently enjoyed his work. It seemed as if his career had consisted of one case after another in which a man or woman had confronted him with some obscene gesture or lascivious remark. Senak admitted to Hersey that...