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But others caution about letting the dead hand of the past write a premature judgment.
Now many in the theater community wonder if a similar untidy duel may someday be in the offing : dead hands of the past reaching into the future.
The law must stand still until the Law Commission have reported and Parliament passed a statute on it : and, meanwhile, every litigant must have his case decided by the dead hand of the past.
His ideas and the extraordinary institutional arrangements in which they had finally come to be expressed, the Palais Mondial or Mundaneum, seemed grandiose, unfocused and pass?. 6 In the early 1930s there was a quietly dramatic struggle to remove the International Institute of Bibliography, transformed eventually into the International Federation for Documentation, from this institutional complex and from under what was considered to be the dead hand of the past-effectively the hand of the still very much alive but ageing Otlet ."