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...that belief in "the justice of the courts" is being undermined. Where 19th Century judges scorned to adapt their abstract reasoning to experience and social change, the "realists" of today, stimulated perhaps by hasty readings in Marx and Freud, challenge the worth of any standard except experience. ". . . [Some] assert [the law] is a camouflage of reason covering up ... individual personal prejudices or wishes . . . because human judges cannot keep purely subjective factors from influencing and indeed determining their action...
...course, they will assert for the next few weeks that Britain has repudiated socialism after this abortive experiment. Since the Laborites only received 49.3 percent to the Tories' 48.3 percent, this point is one that will bear and get frequent repetition. It is fraught with significance...
...here is Buckley's overwhelming fallacy. He says "...A researcher ought to be free to seek out his own conclusions, to make his own generalizations on the basis of his discoveries...It is a self-contained paradox to endow a researcher or a research organization with funds and to assert simultaneously what will come out of the investigations for which the funds are to be used. For obviously under such a formula, there is no reason for investigation to be undertaken at all." What Buckley terribly forgets is that the classroom is just as much a research organization...
...incomparable Len Hutton-"White Rose Wonder" and "Pride of Pudsey"-a Surrey cricketer? . . . After such a howler I should scarcely raise an eyebrow were you to assert that Joe DiMaggio plays for the Boston...
Bill Boyle continued to assert that everything was on the up & up. Harry Truman promised to look into the whole thing...