It bent time, excluded the unexceptional and created dramatic narratives out of the mess of mundane life.
The Mormon Church at the time excluded blacks from full membership, considering them spiritually unfit as results of a biblical curse on the descendants of Noah's son Ham.
It has secured the convictions of perhaps millions of criminals and, from time to time, excluded innocent suspects like Buckland, and overturned miscarriages of justice.
The Graham decision for the first time excluded a class of offenders from a punishment other than death.
"The Assad regime has ignored the country's Kurdish population for a long time, excluded them from all development and investment," said Dr Mehmet Demir, head of the Chamber of Medical Doctors in Batman, south-eastern Anatolia.
Wells's recording of this anthem to the honky tonk angel, although banned by the NBC network as suggestive, and for a time excluded too from the Opry, was a huge hit, ruling the country charts for weeks and reportedly selling more than three-quarters of a million discs.
