Word: writs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspaper column. With the diminution of these outlets, the stories have found their way between cloth covers. No matter how thick those covers, they cannot disguise the poverty and pretension of the contents. It may be true, as Edwin Booth observed, that most actors' work is writ on water. Alas, it is truer to say that most actors' lives are rot on paper...
...case, Time and Newsweek would have been ecstatle. A random savesdropping of the chatter of Harvard Class of 1970's fifth reunion gave doubles evidence to the notion that yesterday's revolutionaries have beaten their awards into scalpels and traded their red books for writ books. These is attendance were primarily lawyers and law students, with a smattering of doctors, academics, and other professionals, and one unemployed moot-suiter...
Died. Sir Godfrey Driver, 82, Oxford University biblical scholar who headed the New English Bible's team of Old Testament translators for more than two decades; in Oxford. One of the most significant revisions of Holy Writ in this century, the N.E.B. is marked by lucid and often majestic prose that eliminates archaisms such as "thee" and "thou" unless characters are addressing the Deity. One exception: in the prologue to Job, Satan casually greets God with the familiar "you." Explained Translator Driver: "Satan is the Devil, and is allowed to be bumptious...
...Have Nothing to Declare but My Genius is full of fizz and vinegar. It is a magnificently spiteful spoof about a rich, prolific hack written by a man who frequently describes himself as a bleeder and a firm believer "that easy writ ing makes hard reading." The hack is the kind of man who dashes off a few mysteries before breakfast and boasts of popularizing Shakespeare so that he will be "comprehensible to the veriest moron ... to even a rock fan." He is also a painter with a worldwide reputation...
...have both provided that even though a prisoner pleads guilty, he may still mount a constitutional attack with an appeal in state courts. But may that attack continue into federal courts via a habeas corpus petition? In a heroin possession case, a four-man minority argued that "the great writ was not designed as a means of freeing persons who have voluntarily confessed guilt." Justices Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun endorsed the procedure as a practical way of permitting "the constitutional issues [to] be litigated without the necessity of going through ... a trial...