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...unique way of providing continuity from one issue to another. Miss Karmel seems to have been singled out for "the treatment" by this month's proofreaders. She was deprived of more than one set of quotation marks which should rightfully have been hers, and was subjected to the delightful variant: "So I just waived my hand...
Against them, Roscoe Pound has tried his best to emphasize that law is something more than a variant form of sociology. In a book published last week, Justice According to Law (Yale; $2.50), the 81-year-old dean of U.S. legal scholars summarizes his defense of legal values that once seemed as unassailable as free-enterprise economics or a classical education...
...though cumbersome, should work (in Korea, 17 nations are welded together without too much trouble). The big obstacle lies in deciding how and by whom this new army should be financed and equipped, a problem which is sure to bog down in wrangling assemblies, difficult currency barriers and widely variant tax systems...
...general never studied at West Point: the facts of life. But Marquand is an old hand at arranging the facts so as to get a few things off his own chest, and Goodwin's uniform does not long conceal the fact that he is just a new variant of an old Marquand hero: the successful U.S. male, vaguely but persistently beset by discontent, his existence complicated by a nonstop war between the sexes...
...found "such antagonistic collections" as a "cowardice of curs," a "pride of lions," "skulk of foxes," "gaggle of geese" (which becomes a "skein" on the wing), "exaltation of larks," "murmuration of starlings" and a "rush of dun-birds." (A Liverpool University librarian noted that "clowder" was an obsolete variant of "dodder" and "clutter...