Word: writ
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bringing a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court for a fictitious character named James' Mendez were third-year law students Faithe A Dalton. Edward J DcAngclo, Jim H Goering, Joby Y. Jakosa, John D Stahl and Lawrence J Studnicky...
...sold more than 1 million copies and was, until now, the standard Jewish translation for the English-speaking world. The strength and selling point of the new Bible, rendered directly from Hebrew to English, is that it ignores the wording of all past Christian translations and turns Holy Writ into fresh, understandable contemporary language instead of Elizabethan English. The Holy Scriptures is drawn solely from the Masoretic text in Hebrew, which evolved into its present form by the 10th century and is Judaism's only official scriptural standard. By comparison, Christian translators consult a variety of scrolls and codices...
...court decisions and congressional testimony, the freshman Justice has forcefully voiced her belief that the federal courts are awash in cases that do not belong there. Many arrive through use of the writ of habeas corpus. "The Great Writ," O'Connor wrote last week, "undermines the usual principles of finality of litigation. Liberal allowance of the writ, moreover, degrades the prominence of the trial itself." Finally, she argued, the endless federal review interferes with state courts. As firmly as such views have put O'Connor in Rehnquist's camp, the new Justice is by no means guaranteed...
Because of their freight of dismay, White's doomsday sketches are rarely as effective as, his verse. He greets spring in New York ("Pigeon, sing Cuccu!") and rags an author about a fatuous book on farming with a review writ ten in rhymed couplets. Using mock heroic stanzas and plenty of relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits...
...record, Canetti is neither a NATO hardliner nor an Iron Curtain apologist: his Nobel cannot be totted on either Scoreboard in the East-West propa ganda Olympics. Canetti embodies a more important quality often omit ted in the literature committee's global approach. He is a major writ er, gifted with a unique talent and an original, if sometimes grisly humanism...