Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connecticut case, Stewart had a third supporter, Justice William O. Douglas. Will a fourth appear? Justice Abe Fortas, for example, is the very lawyer who won the Gideon decision in one of his great pre-bench coups. As court watchers see it, the silent justices are mainly fearful of the effects of carrying out Gideon's admitted logic. Most misdemeanor cases now take only a few minutes; to require lawyers might inflate them into regular trials. The country has not even begun to provide enough public defenders for accused felons; adding misdemeanor cases might overwhelm...
Holly's difficulties are still farther from solution. Right off, Writers Nunnally Johnson and Sidney Michaels failed to get a-fix on the heroine-played by Mary Tyler Moore (of TV's Dick Van Dyke Show)-so Director Abe Burrows (Cactus Flower) tried a re-adaptation. In Philadelphia, Holly came off as a tough $50-a-shot hooker instead of a sweet $50-a-shot hooker. By the time the show reached Boston, Holly had become a nice young thing who might just shack up with anybody for nothing. Worse, Michael Kidd's choreography was more kitsch...
CACTUS FLOWER is a Gallic sex farce that not only survived the transplant from Paris, but, as deftly tended by Abe Burrows, has thrived as a long-blooming Broadway...
...word is that Clark's son Ramsey may become Attorney General (once his father's post). If that happens, Clark might consider resigning in order to avoid any suggestion of impropriety in his sitting on Justice Department cases. Thus far, President Johnson has appointed only Justice Abe Fortas; the odds are that he will soon be called on to fill other vacancies-and perhaps create a considerably different court in the process...
...Senator Kennedy's less than subtle, self-emulatory campaign and his image-making political antics disgust the rational, intelligent voter and remind one of Abe Lincoln's familiar quote: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time...