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What Mark Twain Meant. Since 1937, the Nine had taken themselves pretty well out of the headlines, but they had made news nonetheless. Closer to the tradition of Holmes and Brandeis than to that of Hughes, they had plowed under old and respected landmarks; they had overturned, altogether, some 30 previous decisions of the Supreme Court; they had struck out boldly, sometimes brashly, into new grounds. Other courts had split more violently, but no court had quarreled so continuously and rambunctiously with itself, Whereas in the '20s and '30s the courts found themselves in solid agreement some...
...justices sometimes viewed the official opinions of their brethren on the court with the sharp, scornful rejoinders of political debaters: "Puts another weapon in the hands of the criminal world." "Converts the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact." "I give up-now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.' " Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves...
...hear of him. Even Shaw admired the two authorized biographies George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works and Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet ("I had only been uncollected odds and ends," said G.B.S. "Henderson collected me"). Henderson also wrote one of the first full-length biographies of Mark Twain, a 500,000-word history of his state, and a recondite mathematics treatise, "The Derivation of the Brianchon Configuration for Two Spatial Point-Triads." Once, two universities (Oklahoma and Tulsa) offered him presidencies in the course of a single evening. Moronic Camels. Despite such offers, Archibald Henderson seldom left Chapel Hill...
...Bank Exchange there was a high mahogany bar, its top worn smooth, it was said, by the sleeves of Mark Twain, Bret Harte and others whose tongues and voices were loosened and made eloquent by that ambrosial drink...
...past twelvemonth the nation's psychological climate had changed significantly. A bustle of hopeful activity hummed up & down Petrarch', "fair land which Apennines cut in twain "' seas and Alps surround." After a worrisome winter drought, the cypress groves of Tuscany and the rocky pastures of the south were turning a promising green under welcome rains. Along the Via Appia, middle-class families spread picnic lunches of bread, salami and strong red wine. From Venice to Capri hotels and restaurants looked forward to a season of 2,000,000 tourists, bringing American dollars and British pounds. The springtime...