Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music itself has a tremendous amount of motion and harmonic variety. It sounds almost atonal at times, but I suspect this is due largely to the sudden, rapid shifts in tonality. Textural variety is achieved by frequent solo passages in which one of the instruments takes a long, vocal line with semi-estinato accompaniment. Taken as a whole, the Three Madrigals may very likely become a permanent part of the violin-viola repertory...
Bell first began to suspect that Nasser was the man to watch shortly after the coup d'etat of July 23, 1952. Says Bell: "We started hearing the phrase El Bekbashi constantly around army headquarters. El Bekbashi wanted this done . . . has ordered . . . Bekbashi means lieutenant colonel in Arabic. El Bekbashi was obviously a big man, but we didn't know who he was. It was not until late summer that we learned that El Bekbashi was Nasser...
...making of a just decision. May he, then, be summoned to the witness stand and, at the discretion of the judge, be required to "tell what he knows"? Surely not! "Defendants" are not, in that sense, "witnesses." In our criminal procedure, no the provision that a suspect or a defendant himself, with such advice as he may take from his lawyer, is the "ultimate judge" as to whether or not he shall testify. And at this point, it must be noted, he does not enter a plea to the Court. He makes a decision...
...still farther: not only can we ask an innocent man to risk error, but we must ask him. For in no society can the institutions of justice and order be in principle suspect. We cannot allow, let alone underwrite, the questioning of the authority of any duly constituted agency by anyone within its jurisdiction. General MacArthur's notorious pronouncement that he owed allegiance to the Constitution rather than to the Commander-in-Chief was something no society could allow. Allegiance to the Constitution is allegiance to what it authorizes...
...gallery of portraits includes the affable murderer, a respected but degenerate lawyer, who kills and mutilates his 19-year-old maidservant; the murder suspect, an apelike beast, who is really as engaging as he is simple, although he did try to rape, of all people, the madam of the establishment at No. 15, Street of the Little Nuns; the police sergeant, who acts the cop but cannot understand why he has devoted 30 years of unflagging vigilance to maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced...