cacoethes


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Celsus (9) stated that only the earliest stage of breast cancer (cacoethes) could be cured but, because it was clinically very difficult to distinguish this from more advanced tumour (carcinoma), caustic medicaments should be applied when there was doubt.
Based upon the product of Kamisar's acute (30) cacoethes scribendi, (31) there is every reason to believe that Yale's own assessment as to why his Brooklyn Dodgers article failed was not that it had too many footnotes, but that it had too few.
In saying this, however, I am not necessarily taking issue with Alder's main thesis that it is disagreement over values which underpins dissent--a point acknowledged in Ben Palmer, 'Causes of Dissents: Judicial Self-Restraint or Abdication?' (1948) 34 American Bar Association Journal 761, 765; Roscoe Pound, 'Cacoethes Dissentiendi: The Heated Judicial Dissent' (1953) 39 American Bar Association Journal 794, 796.
"'Prayers in the Market Place': Women and Low Culture in Catharine Sedgwick's 'Cacoethes Scribendi.'" American Transcendental Quarterly 16 (2002): 101-13.
It may have been started by Truman Capote with In Cold Blood, and Norman Mailer may have been its most prominent practitioner since, but the cacoethes scribendi seems to have spread from eminent novelists to just novelists to, well, would-be novelists currently employed by our finer newspapers or periodicals.
599), he has also now completed his Castles Trilogy with the publication of Cloud Castles (1998) and the present novel, Capital Castles, subtitled "The Still Further Accounts of Duncan Katz in 140 Chapters Including a Patriotic Peroration, an Apostrophe, a Classic Culminating Cacoethes."
Linked to the libido sciendi, this cacoethes scribendi had already reached epidemic proportions by the Renaissance.
The third horse, a further two lengths adrift, was the 3-1 second favourite Cacoethes (G Starkey).
He was sent off a 2-9 favourite to prove himself against the older generation again in the King George, but he struggled to fend off Cacoethes and prevailed by a neck.
No full Boswell treatment for Coleridge, then--his biographers have had to settle for indicating the fact of his cacoethes loquendi.