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...Quamar's African thumb piano (a handmade wooden box holding long metal prongs that are plucked), Renaud Simmons' conga and Joe Chamber's drums, he conjures up a thundering, lashing storm with sweeps across the keyboard -and then lets it fade into the silver pinging of random raindrops. Freddie Hubbard's trumpet has a cry for every change of mood...
...felt duty-bound to write a 647-page manuscript on four days in November, should have paid more than summary, melodramatic attention to this issue. Historians of the future, to whose efforts Manchester hoped to contribute, will undoubtedly be far more perplexed by the actual assassination than the random deployment of Kennedy family and friends in planning the President's funeral. Yet it is these arrangements--with the variety of emotions they evoked--that seem to intrigue the author...
There is no doubt as to the preferences of a great many very contented people in this country. It would be to have two great conservative parties between which it might be possible to choose at random. And it would be to have liberalism as feckless, irrelevant and intellectually obsolete as Time in its more thoughtful moments regularly proclaims it to be. We shall continue to disappoint their words. And the Democratic Party will be either a liberal party or -- as Harry Truman rightly observed -- it will be a losing party. And while Democrats, from time to time, will unquestionably...
...Real Start. Voir dire is an art practiced largely in U.S. state courts. British judges simply call twelve veniremen at random without even asking their occupations. American federal judges usually do the questioning themselves. But in most state courts, lawyers are freely permitted to use voir dire not only to select jurors but to "condition" them. "Voir dire is really the start of a criminal trial," says F. Lee Bailey. "If you do it carelessly, you can lose a case by the time you get a jury together...
FATHERS by Herbert Gold. 308 pages. Random House...