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...Volkje. Explaining the government's case, Minister of Labor Jan de Klerk, Strydom's brother-in-law, said: "God is sovereign and his sovereignty is vested in het volkje [the folk], who vest it in their chosen rulers. We therefore have the right to determine what must be done, and nobody else has received that power from the Creator." Answered Harry Lawrence, leader of the Opposition in Cape Province: "I resent the implication that there is a partnership between God and Strydom-and that Strydom is the senior partner." British South Africans, most of whom stood by indifferently...
...have laughed that he, the lover of the clean direct English language, could have inspired such writing as Buechler's! For example: "But time was when a grown man, maybe he was middle-aged already, and standing square on his own two feet in his overcoat and suit and vest, malory fedora, the best necktic he had left and a watch chain if he'd held on to it, was a grateful man to have it, and a college graduate." Orwell would have laughed and said, "Come off it, Buechler," and as usual he would have been right...
Five steps later, he ran headlong into a Chinese grenade. Fragments tore into him; one passed through the armhole of his armored vest into his lung. Lieut. Braestrup fell, critically wounded...
...talking with students--in classes, in hallways, in his office. Call Professor Seavey on the phone to ask for an appointment, and he just says, "Come up anytime. I'm always here." Go up to his office in Langdell and there he is, sitting at his desk, jacket off, vest unbuttoned, and one of a large collection of popes in his mouth. As Professor Zechariah Chafee has said, "When you go to Warren Seavey for help you know you will...
...Redgrave), who is a sort of cross between Hercule Poirot and Father Brown, with a dash of old man Karamazov thrown in. Deliot is a French lawyer, an ancient case-horse just about ready for pasture. A bachelor, from the bees in his bonnet to the flies on his vest, he is grimy, grouchy, up to his knees in litter, and almost down to his belt in beard...