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Failure to use the privilege obligates one legally to answer all question including these concerning one's friends and associates. The view of civilization and history regarding such action is best expressed in The Jewish Encyclopedia discussion of Moser, Vol, IX, p, 42: "An informer, denunciator, or delator.... Nothing was more severely punished by the Jews than talebearing; and no one was held in greater contempt than the informer ... the sages of the Talmud compared the moser to a serpent.... The great Talmudist of Lucena, Joseph ibn Migas, caused an informer to be stoned before the close of a certain...
...people still consider it highly classified. The book: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, by Alfred C. Kinsey and the staff of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. Its chief author calls it simply "the female volume," and writes this "♂vol.," using the scientist's universal symbol, the mirror of Venus, for the female. For the male he uses &# 9792;, the arrow of Mars...
Music of Poland, Vol. II (Chamber Orchestra of the Polish Radio conducted by Jerzy Kolaczkowski; Vanguard). Talented Composer Witold Lutoslawski is heard for the first time in the U.S. on this disk, and is well worth a hearing. His Little Suite succeeds neatly in integrating elements of fun, folk themes and his own considerable personality. Modern in effect, but easy to take...
Samuel Eliot Morison, the Navy's Boswell, has reached mid-1944 (and Vol. 8) in his projected 14-volume U.S. naval history of World War II, and the Pacific war takes on a grander sweep and a faster pace. For two years, General MacArthur's forces have been straining to break the Bismarcks Barrier. In the nibbling operations in the Gilberts and Marshalls, the Marines have taken a successful but costly bite at Tarawa. Meanwhile, the Navy has been unable to engage any large part of the Japanese fleet since Midway...
...Host the World: Persons and Places, Vol. Ill (posthumously published) concludes the autobiography...