Legal Spectator & MoreThe Capitol Net Inc - 320 páginas A compilation of Washington, DC, attorney Jacob Stein's essays about lawyers, judges, clients, literature, and popular culture. The essays in this volume have previously appeared in Washington Lawyer, American Scholar, the Times Literary Supplement, and Wilson Quarterly. |
Contenido
Words and Music | 175 |
An Evening With Louis Armstrong | 183 |
Peter Arno Meets Somerset Maugham | 193 |
The Eponymous Mr Ponzi | 205 |
Bing Crosby Gus Edwards O Henry | 213 |
Cohan and Harris and the Law of Being on the Square | 221 |
Dr Bernhardi | 229 |
General Buck Lanham Ernest Hemingway | 239 |
How to Get a Confession | 71 |
The Investment Building | 79 |
Timing Is Everything | 87 |
Indecision | 95 |
The Discoverers | 103 |
Cold Cash Up Front | 113 |
The Courthouse | 119 |
Outrageous in New York | 127 |
People | 133 |
Señor Wences | 153 |
Curtain Up | 165 |
We Meet by Chance | 245 |
Arrested in Old Havana | 253 |
Daumier in Motions Court | 261 |
In a Little Tin Box | 269 |
Keep Your Big Mouth Shut | 277 |
Lists | 285 |
Spies Are Back at 800 F Street | 293 |
Success | 305 |
Keeping Secrets | 317 |
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Página 49 - The nature of foreign negotiations requires caution, and their success must often depend on secrecy ; and, even when brought to a conclusion, a full disclosure of all the measures, demands, or eventual concessions, which may have been proposed or contemplated, would be extremely impolitic ; for this might have a pernicious influence on future negotiations, or produce immediate inconveniences, perhaps danger and mischief, in relation to other powers.
Página 88 - A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal ; A time to break down, and a time to build up ; A time to weep, and a time to laugh ; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together...
Página 212 - The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger...
Página 148 - Let us cease to consider what, perhaps, may never happen, and what, when it shall happen, will laugh at human speculation. We will not endeavour to modify the motions of the elements, or to fix the destiny of kingdoms. It is our business to consider what beings like us may perform ; each labouring for his own happiness, by promoting within his circle, however narrow, the happiness of others.
Página 165 - His blows were not undecided and ineffectual — lumbering like Mr. Wordsworth's epic poetry, nor wavering like Mr. Coleridge's lyric prose, nor short of the mark like Mr. Brougham's speeches, nor wide of it like Mr. Canning's wit, nor foul like the Quarterly, nor let balls like the Edinburgh Review.
Página 176 - But, besides those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhere...