Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark the men, mostly farmers, gathered to listen to the news, and to talk about what to do. The danger wasn't immediate, so the captain of the company, John Parker, dispersed his small force for the time being--some went home, others adjourned to nearby Buckman Tavern to sip a hot, strong brew...
...wife maintains desperately. Ella plans to sell the house her lawyer friend and lover, Taylor, who wants to build a housing development. "Everyone wants a piece of land," he declares, "so pitch in and play ball, or you'll lose." Meanwhile, Weston has traded the house to the local tavern owner, a degenerate called Ellis, to pay his debts...
...recall of Calvin does not mean remorse among the Genevans. The city, despite its placid lakeshore site, is a grim spot enlivened mainly by nocturnal vices: gambling, drinking, whoring. In one notorious district there is a tavern for every three dwellings. Though he cherishes his own ration of wine (teetotaling comes later in Protestant history), the cleric inveighs against every excess. He condemns dancing as a prelude to fornication and finds Genevan feasting obscenely luxurious. (Among the new ordinances he demands is one limiting banquets to three courses of a mere four plates each...
...story the critics have cited concerns a 1972 decision, Moore vs. Illinois, that denied a new trial to a man who faced a life sentence for murdering a bartender in a tavern quarrel. As the book tells it, Brennan favored a retrial but decided to join in the majority opinion. Reason: Brennan was concerned that Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, would be "personally offended" if he dissented and thus might not support him in other cases. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis decided to probe this account of cynical legal horse-trading, which the book suggested was based...