TF
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>http://www.slate.com/id/2131181/
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>Objective Correlative Watch
>A new occasional series in which the inanimate world
>comments on human folly.
>By Timothy Noah
>Posted Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005, at 11:33 AM ET
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>The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art
>is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other
>words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of
>events which shall be the formula of that particular
>emotion; such that when the external facts, which must
>terminate in sensory experience, are given, the
>emotion is immediately evoked.—T.S. Eliot, "Hamlet and
>His Problems"
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>In a not-quite-off-the-record chat last week with Time
>Warner big shots, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
>said the court decided to rule on the disputed 2000
>election because it didn't want to "give the Florida
>Supreme Court another couple of weeks in which the
>United States could look ridiculous." As Al Kamen of
>the Washington Post pointed out,
>"appearance-of-ridiculousness" is not a constitutional
>standard heretofore recognized by legal scholars.
>According to Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News
>(who in writing about Scalia's remarks put Time
>Warner's senior management into a status-anxious
>tizzy), Scalia also expressed disagreement with the
>court's "actual malice" standard for libel (he'd
>prefer the tripwire be mere "negligence") and called
>Roe v. Wade an "absurd" opinion.
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>Mere days later, a large piece of marble fell off the
>molding of the Supreme Court's 70-year-old facade.
>According to Reuters, the marble chunk had been
>positioned above the inscription "Equal Justice Under
>the Law" and an allegorical figure representing Order.
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>Timothy Noah writes "Chatterbox" for Slate.
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