Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laborite M.P. Hector McNeil thought that "if Jesus came back, He would see much to admire and much that would distress Him, and, on balance. I humbly suspect more to applaud than to condemn. For man improves. Compassion . . . has grown more lively in our country . . . the young-and no less the hungry, the enfeebled and the aged-have become a high charge on our national effort...
...Author Ethel Mannin (Two Studies in Integrity, Late Have I Loved Thee) saw Christ speaking at Hyde Park Corner and Tower Hill. In the U.S. "His command to the rich to 'sell all that thou hast and give to the poor' might make Him suspect of 'Communist' leanings. His preaching might fall into the category of 'unAmerican activities.' But provided He didn't clash too badly . . . He would probably be invited to speak at women's clubs, and His teaching would be regarded as a new cult worthy of the attention...
Somehow I suspect that Stephen Potter wrote Sense of Humor because he thought he must. As the most popular humorous writer in contemporary English prose, his readers look to him for some kind of definitive comment on humor, which he surely does not give them in Sense of Humor. Mainly an anthology of various scraps of humor since Chaucer, it reels pompously though eight hundred years of English literature in search of some kind of principle. The most amusing thing about the book is that Potter could just as well have written his opening sentence, "The day of English humor...
...that conviction should be set aside. Certainly no one should be held guilty of any offense on the testimony of a self-confessed liar. It does not follow, however, that testimony from all former Communists is in the same category as Matusow's testimony. All such witnesses are suspect, and the Government should not use testimony from them unless it can be corroborated. But the mere fact that a Matusow is a liar does not prove that, for instance, a Whittaker Chambers also is a liar...
...itself. Under French law. there is no grand jury; instead, there is the juge d'instruction, whom Balzac called the most powerful man in the Republic. He performs the role of investigating magistrate. His great power is that, on his decision, and his alone, he can put any suspect in jail under "preventive detention'' while he investigates the case and prepares a dossier for the trial. Such "preventive detentions" can last for years...