Word: sternly
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Call to the Jungles. The son of a Glens Falls, N.Y. lawyer, Patterson was educated at Union College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School, organized his own law firm in Manhattan in 1922. In 1930, President Hoover made him a district court judge; he presided with the stern sense of duty of his Yankee forebears. President Roosevelt promoted him to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in 1939. Prior to World War II Judge Patterson fought the unpopular fight for a military-conscription law, and personally enrolled in an officers' refresher course at Plattsburg, N.Y. There...
...trip. Said he: "You must not expect the Americans to solve our domestic problems for us. [No one] is going to keep the British lion as a pet." Nor should the Tories themselves be expected to turn on prosperity overnight. "Unpleasant" measures will be needed to deal with "stern and grim facts." The Conservatives, said Winston Churchill, will need "at least three years before anyone can judge fairly whether we have made things better or worse...
...this argument the lawyer-moralist has a stern retort. First of all, punishment is an administrative necessity-an indispensable safeguard of civilized society. More important, "to condemn and punish offenders, to insist on their responsibility ... is a phase of ... bracing strictness which has an irreplaceable educational value . . . With any individual, simply to accept his temperament and character as they are, and his impulses as they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...
...very satisfied," said stern-faced Konrad Adenauer last week, with a rare smile. He, the Chancellor and Foreign Minister of West Germany, had just come from a meeting in Paris with the U.S. Secretary of State, British Foreign Secretary and French Foreign Minister. For the first time, the German had been treated as an equal by the conquerors. "We have become partners only six years after the collapse," said Adenauer trimphantly...