Atticus Finch literary journals". Alice Petry remarked, "Atticus has become something of a folk hero in legal circles and is treated almost as if he were an actual person". Examples of Atticus Finch's impact on the legal profession are plentiful. Richard Matsch, the federal judge who presided over the Timothy McVeigh trial, counts Atticus as a major judicial influence. One law professor at the University of Notre Dame stated that the most influential textbook from which he taught was "To Kill a Mockingbird", and an article in the "Michigan Law Review" asserts, "No real-life lawyer has done more for the self-image or
The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time The following are the "Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" according to the worldwide opinion polls conducted by "Sight & Sound" and published in the journal's September 2012 issue. They published the critics' list, based on 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors, and the directors' list, based on 358 directors and filmmakers. "Sight & Sound", published by the British Film Institute, has conducted a poll of the greatest films every 10 years since 1952. In the 2012 critics' poll, "Vertigo" ranked first, replacing "Citizen Kane", which held the