Word: writs
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With these and similar wordings (see box), the Good News Bible, published this week by the American Bible Society, turns Holy Writ into modern, everyday English. In doing so, the new translation continues one of the great success stories in publishing history. Until the late 1950s, the Bible Society limited itself to distributing low-cost editions of traditional translations. Then it decided to prepare its own Bible, beginning with a New Testament, aimed at roughly a high school reading level...
...start, Mason committed to paper the basic principles of English law: the right to trial by jury, to be secure at home from unreasonable search and seizure, the writ of habeas corpus, etc. But he also added new notions. For one, that "the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments." For another, that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Mason had originally proposed only the "toleration" of different religious views; it was young James Madison...
...second chance in the Winthrop House JCR this weekend. Charlie Brown, despite his advancing years, and despite the fact that newspapers are pushing both him and Jules Feiffer aside in favor of Doonesbury, is still young America's quintessential nebbish, every little boy's and girl's Woody Allen-writ small. Charles M. Schultz's cutesie-pie pop-psychological ponderings have been adapted for the stage by Clark Gesner...
...knife when he refuses to eat. The joke is a funny one, no doubt-and by elevating a stand-up routine into a comic art form, Philip Roth gave popular American culture the definitive stereotype of the Jewish mother. As for the Jewish grandmother, she is merely Sophie Portnoy writ large...
...Sometimes we see as many as ten, 20 or 30 petitions from one man over a period of years," says San Francisco Federal Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli. Some federal courts have "writ clerks" who do nothing but go over prisoner petitions. Habeas corpus is "an important psychological right," argues Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, even though "the number of prisoners who succeed is infinitesimal." Nelson Kempsky of California's department of corrections agrees: "Increasing access to the courts has not made it more difficult to run prisons. In fact, it has served as a safety valve...