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When I was young at the bar I heard with delight an old lawyer, who could have played Dickens's Mr. Tulkinghorn, speak grandly of the court of nisi prius (pronouncing it NICEY PRY-US), an utterly obsolete Latinism for the simple trial court . Just as any speaker may, for the sake of euphony (or vanity) flourish an occasional eminence grise or mirabile dictu , may not a lawyer plume himself now and then with an ab initio or even a mutatis mutandis , not to “unite the priesthood’ but to savor his own sonority, as a bird sings also for itself?
Also, while Talmudic scholarship is sometimes aimed at practical affairs (for instance, civil and criminal law, dietary laws, the status of women), it also considers issues that have no practical application at all, and sometimes delves into matters that may seem utterly fanciful.
In paintings and drawings Stalin is often represented in utterly fictitious settings: addressing workers on the factory floor, say, or surrounded by gleeful ethnic types from the Soviet republics.
But I will say this: One should always be suspicious of arguments that claim that one country is utterly different from others.
Both are embarked on undistinguished, if not utterly futile, careers in Congress.
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