Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTY CARATS. Julie Harris plays a middle-aged divorcee ardently wooed by a 22-year-old lad, while her teen-age daughter runs off with a wealthy widower of 45. Directed with crisp agility by Abe Burrows, the show is never less than civilized...
...Alas, another slightly tarnished, slightly tattered liberal bites the dust. Abe Fortas, like the Smothers brothers, was a victim of the Establishment. Free and constructive speech, once valued as a privileged medium of criticism, is fast becoming a farcical political device of the haves. With the possibility of four liberal seats being vacated soon, the conservatives are chuckling. God help us if another Taft Era is the result...
...sense, Abe Fortas prejudged himself last year in that characteristically pithy statement on civil disobedience...
...Motivated by unquestioned humanitarian ideals, many such men nevertheless grew so accustomed over 30 years to power and influence-and the material goods both brought-that they believed they could do no wrong. Lyndon Johnson's self-righteous dismissal of his critics was not so very different from Abe Fortas' arrogant assumption that he had done nothing wrong in dealing with a man like Wolfson. "Fortas was the guy," one Johnson intimate remembered, "who was most responsible for Johnson's never answering criticism. 'Leave it alone,' he'd say. 'Don't dignify...
...Justice Abe Fortas yesterday announced his resignation from the Supreme Court. President Nixon accepted it immediately. The resignation of a Supreme Court Justice under pressure is unprecedented...