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Died. Harry Kalven Jr., 60, University of Chicago law professor who, with Colleague Hans Zeisel, wrote The American Jury, a definitive and laudatory tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken...
...York's master builder Robert Moses really be worth reading about in a tome far longer than War and Peace? The astonishing answer, in an age when doorstop books have become a plague, is yes-emphatically...
Taken as an adult comic book, The Best can evade critique. Taken seriously, the tome has its disturbing aspects. Participation in the public arena is increasingly ceded to a few: athletes, politicians, performers. But their audience at least retains the ability to judge for itself, to realize that one man's best may be another's worst. Once the power to discriminate is left to others, that audience becomes herd but not seen, a mass to be manipulated. One would do better to choose the second best because it appeals rather than the best because it is dictated...
DURING ONE of the heavier-handed scenes in Wedding in Blood, Stephane Audran, playing the wife of a boorish and corrupt French politician, appears in her town's library to donate a volume on ethics. The librarian, impressed by the tome's weightiness and its complicated-sounding title, accepts the book and remarks, "It must be very difficult." Audran's precocious little daughter, who understands the surface of things better than any adult character, closes this little lesson on ethics by chiming in with her typically mocking tone, "Oh yes, very difficult...
...January. The document presented by Nixon this year is intimidating: it has 1,071 pages, weighs 2½ Ibs. and calls for spending $304.4 billion. Congress now has the power to revise the President's budget completely, but it lacks a centralized staff to analyze such a massive tome. More important, Congress is simply not organized to consider the proposal as a whole-or to perform the essential job of setting goals, weighing priorities, and figuring out where the money is going to be raised to meet specific needs...