The defendant's lawyers furthered pushed the court to try the case as if the abridgement had been recorded in the Stationers' Register, an action that would have given Wilcox and Nutt the right to publish their book, and the lawsuit brought against a second, unique book.
It's written at a middle-school reading level, and although Sullivan is clear enough about the contours of the most troubling and least successful Presidencies in history, the abridgement naturally works in their favor nonetheless.
"My Past and Thoughts" embraces a wide range of moods and emotional registers, from the poignant lyricism of the chapters on childhood to the anguished, self-lacerating examination of the Herwegh affair (not included in the Macdonald abridgement).
Given Wright's limitations in reading foreign languages (L 373), he may have used the abridgement and English translation of Comte by Harriet Martineau (Comte 1853), hereafter cited as Comte).
Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" has a complicated and diverse geography, but the abridgement of it that came to the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Thursday was like a package tour, down to the pretty landscape photos in the accompanying guidebook, sorry, program.
The content of the letters was propagandistically claimed by Massachusetts radical politicians to call for the abridgement of colonial rights, and a duel was fought in England over the matter.
In 2002, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and the United States attorney's office filed separate suits alleging the abridgement of Mrs. Posner's civil rights.
But I do miss Philip Burton's tremulous joy in Reverend Eli Jenkins's celebratory ode to 'Dear Gwalia' and the children's delightful playground singing is a sad casualty of the abridgement.
Because of the abridgement, you have to listen carefully, but it's worth it for le Carré's narration.
Most of the abridgement is not so much a summary as passages quoted from Trogus, connected by colourless moralizing by Justin.
