Word: wretched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Justice Stewart's statement still holds: "...any poor wretch in any dirty jail in this country can know that he can at least petition the Supreme Court...not some mini-Court that is going to bureaucratize it...The great thing about our Court is that it's not a bureaucracy...not just nine policy makers riding around in Cadillacs." To gain its place in history, the Freund Committee will have to prove that a transfer of responsibility in the Federal judicial system will not isolate the Supreme Court from those submerged in prisons who presently expect that, if only...
...alternative presents himself: the Court Liar, a wretch who earns his wine by reciting absurdities about lands so cold that water turns hard and men's skins are white. He is quick, deadly; he kills two soldiers with a spear; the princess is fascinated; he unsettles her lewdly with suggestions of non-incest; he talks of dominion over all the king doms of the valley, and has the wit, while breaking tradition, to wrap him self in new myth; he is the quick, stinging Scorpion God. She is tempted. Egypt begins...
...toward ruin, then puts him in a holding pattern and moves some other character a totter or two toward temptation. But just before the dread jaws of fee-fi-fo-fum snap shut, there is another shift of attention, and the reader must tremble in behalf of a third wretch who has been circling perdition for two chapters, waiting for permission to land...