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His childhood on his family's sylvan 3,500 acre estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was one of almost unimaginable privilege, yet from the beginning he felt compelled to flatter, cajole, and even engage in abject self-criticism if that's what it took to get his way, particularly with his puritanical and disapproving father.
In the Treaty of Nanking (1842) China was compelled to open five of its ports to foreign economic and political penetration, and even to compensate the opium smugglers for their losses.
' Well, do ya, punk ?" and "Go ahead, make my day"--are purring come-ons: The bad guy is practically compelled to submit to this tall, handsome killer with his long Magnum pistol.
And while it is true that no author, no matter how accomplished, ever ceases to struggle with the craft of writing, there is surely a difference between that stage when one is fumbling around, trying to discover if one can even be a writer, and the stage where one is fully confident of addressing the world as nothing but a writer, because one is as compelled to write as to breathe.
That is why I believe that few police officers--or prosecutors--would accept a blanket prohibition on police interrogation in exchange for compelled pretrial depositions.