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...symbols of Kingliness: the Ring (of sapphire and rubies), to wed the Queen to her subjects; the Royal Sceptre with the Cross, decorated with the Star of Africa (a 516½-carat diamond), for "kingly power"; the Rod of equity and mercy, to "lead your people in the way wherein they should go." The climax of the coronation was near...
Over the years numerous legislative commissions have studied the problems of the district-court system. Most of these reports have been severely critical of a confusing situation wherein a man can act as counsel in court one day and judge the next. Whether justified or not, considerable suspicion is bound to arise that part-time judges might well allow personal legal affairs to interfere with decisions. Other doubts center on the influence a justice of a district court can have over other judges when acting as an attorney. It is clear that not until judges are kept on one side...
Certainly any story appearing in the Advocate's pages might be criticized, but there is no reason why this cannot be done intelligently; no reason why we should not be told wherein and in what way the author is at fault. Mr. Halberstam makes the attempt in his discussion (sic) of the Hoagland story, but he does not try again. Rather, he asserts that the Cumming story cannot structurally stand by itself; and proves his point by mentioning imagery in one of Cumming's sentences (!) He furthermore groups Sean Sweeney's stories with the poetry, says he "plays with words...
...present in the Yard on the hour wherein the shout was heard around the world. But the account of it I obtained from Walter Prichard Eaton, 1990, who now lives in Sheffield, Mass, and who should properly tell this story. So I tell it subject to his correction, for the archives of an ever-to-be-corrected history...
...voice will be that of Stevenson, but the hand will be that of Harry Truman." This charge, said Nixon, would surely be called unfair, but there was a simple way for Stevenson to refute it: "I challenge him to be specific and tell the American people in plain English wherein he disagrees with the Truman-A.D.A. program . . . The people have had enough of his fancy-striped-pants language, meaning all things to all people. They want Stevenson to get down to brass tacks...