It was so rare a piece of fun To see the swelter'd cattle run

But she went to her car and came back with a purple pharmacist's refill bottle of promethazine-codeine cough syrup. She called it Texas tea.

It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an overachiever, to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor.

Some of the exonerees did meet with partial success during their appeals and postconviction process, but this success was usually short-lived.