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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freund Report | 4/27/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Marvels | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Round and Round | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...Puts the wretch that lies in woe! In remembrance of a shroud...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...find it incredible that a panel of professional people has ignored the almost universally accepted premise that infantile and adolescent sex experience shapes the recipient into either a happy, healthy person or a depraved, miserable wretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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