Word: writting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...center, however, the patient and four of his relatives or friends must be in formed of his right to a jury hearing. Any one of them can then demand it. If the patient is committed, he need no longer fear being held indefinitely with no legal recourse except a writ of habeas corpus. Now his case must be reviewed by a court at intervals of six months, one year, and every two years thereafter. Moreover, the new law provides a fact-finding state mental-health service with trained lawyers and case workers, who will not only tell judges more about...
...Colliflower chose jail-and thereby aroused the sympathy of the Rev. Francis Conklin, a Jesuit law professor at Spokane's Gonzaga University. Claiming a patent denial of due process, Father Conklin petitioned Montana's U.S. District Judge William J. Jameson to spring Mrs. Colliflower on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Jameson dismissed the case on the ground that he was "without jurisdiction...