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...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...
...books show why Gail Levin's Edward Hopper as Illustrator (Norton/ The Whitney Museum of American Art; 288 pages; $24.95) brings together the dramatic paintings and drawings Hopper executed for the covers of such publications as Tavern Topics and Hotel Management, as well as the illustrations he did for books and catalogues. Levin's companion volume, Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints (Norton/The Whitney Museum; unpaginated; $15.95), reproduces more than 100 of the artist's etchings and dry points...
Late on a dismal, rainy Friday night a motley crowd in Detroit's smoky Woodbridge Tavern listens to a woman with fierce ginger hair punching out tunes on a ravaged piano. Over the chatter, the president of the third largest union in the U.S. clutches a microphone and, in a gravelly voice, leads the house in a rendering of Solidarity Forever. Douglas Fraser has been singing this union anthem for almost half a century now, his own career paralleling the rise of the U.A.W. He is the last of a generation of labor leaders bred in the rich liberal...
...five months, reporters for the paper had clandestinely operated a Chicago bar called the Mirage tavern, gathering notes on building and fire inspectors as they asked for illegal side payments. Street-wise in a machine-dominated city, Editor James Hoge had lawyers meticulously instruct his reporters in how to avoid committing entrapment. In the past, such Front Page-style enterprise has consistently won Pulitzers. As deception, it is not all that different from the confrontation theater that often gives CBS's 60 Minutes its liveliest episodes...