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Repetitiveness is also writ large in The Uncommitted; Keniston repeats chapters as well as sentences. He has evidently taken the hoary Gen. Ed. A dictum to heart: say what you plan to say; say it; say what you've said. This technique puffs up what ought to be a modest essay into a 500 page book, plus a separate monograph, The Alienated Student, as yet unpublished...
...merchandise which had been confiscated because it was bound for Virginia. He outraged the Administration by filing an opinion that the Secretary of the Treasury was acting illegally when he deducted income tax from judicial salaries. He refused to sanction any attempt by the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus...
...make his fortune and years later returns, repentant, for a macabre homecoming-in effect, a lopsided nightmare filtered through spider webs and gauze. The second story re-creates an ancient sea battle in vividly stylized panels, then leaps centuries to describe how a blind poet-priest, tattooed with Holy Writ to ward off evil, has his ears cut off by the dead heroes whose saga he sings. The third episode is a tale-within-a-tale about a 19th century author of ghost stories who is seemingly destroyed by his own demonology...
...Shuttlesworth sought a writ of habeas corpus in the bus case, won a Supreme Court order that finally led to the voiding of his 1958 conviction...
...would seem to place the church on the side of a too-literal interpretation of the Bible. Instead, they wrote a new version that says the Bible teaches "firmly, with fidelity, and without any error, the truth which God, for our salvation, wanted put down in writing in Holy Writ." Although foiled by decree-writers on that change, Paul nonetheless persuaded them to make another change that pleased literalists. After a reference to the Gospels, the text now adds: ". . . whose historicity the church constantly affirms." The problem: what precisely is meant by historicity...