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...romantic influence waned toward the end of the century, and most historians bowed to the barren discipline of Leopold von Ranke's Prussian school of historiography. Under Ranke's technical, "scientific" approach to history, absolute impartiality was imperative, and readability was sacrificed to research. The monograph, freighted with footnotes, was triumphant, and out of the graduate schools poured a profusion of dreary doctoral theses on subjects no larger than thimbles. Legend has it that one professor, exasperated with the whole nit-picking business, wearily eyed an enormous tome that a Ph.D...
...chapters as well as sentences. He has evidently taken the hoary Gen. Ed. A dictum to heart: say what you plan to say; say it; say what you've said. This technique puffs up what ought to be a modest essay into a 500 page book, plus a separate monograph, The Alienated Student, as yet unpublished...
...YEARS, by Jerry Allen. Everybody knows that Joseph Conrad spent his youth before the mast and his middle years composing some of the finest sea stories in the language. What nobody knew, until Author Allen documented it in this sober but fascinating monograph, is that Conrad's stories are fact-for-fact, act-for-act transcriptions of the hairy adventures of his youth...
...defense lawyers' monograph argues that the ad damnum clause should be banished-or at least kept from jurors' ears. Technically, it merely determines which court has jurisdiction over the amount in controversy. (Most kinds of federal court cases, for example, must involve more than $10,000.) In Pennsylvania and Florida, the plaintiff may now plead only that he demands more or less than the jurisdictional amount of a particular court. New Jersey has eliminated the ad damnum clause. British courts long ago barred lawyers from reading the clause to juries, thus focusing full attention on the trial evidence...
...sharp rebuttal for plaintiffs, President Joseph Kelner of the American Trial Lawyers Association last week attacked the defense monograph as a "radical abandonment" of "dignified and customary" methods of legal reform. According to Kelner, only 2% of all claims ever go to verdict, defendants win more than 50% of the verdicts, and judges are well-equipped to set aside excessive awards...