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Douglas' judicial philosophy was a relentless defense of individual rights. His nearly absolutist views on the subject brooked no debate. His preference, he admits, was for "creating precedent," not "finding it." If he does not describe the give and take of court procedures, it is probably because he held aloof from most of them. He quotes the observation of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes: "Ninety percent of any decision is emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When the Dogs Stopped Snapping | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...front of a duly impressed judge). And he's a true believer, the Oral Roberts of the freedom of speech. So what if he likes the press and relishes having all the liberals mad at him? He knows he is right; it's so comforting to be an absolutist, for it never even allows you to think of circumstances and deviations and morality...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Strange Case of the Cleared Throat | 8/5/1980 | See Source »

...Absolutist that he is, he devises a plan "to settle the question of God once and for all." He will go into a labyrinthian mountain cave and simply sit until he receives a sign. What he gets instead is a toothache, which drives him out of hiding and into the care of Allison, a young schizophrenic who has escaped from a sanitarium and is living in a greenhouse right beneath the cave. Emerging from his vigil, Will Barrett goes through the glass roof and literally falls in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blues in the New South | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...ways the Islamic world's excuse for its own failures, confusions and periodic collapses into incoherence. It is more convenient morally to blame the West than to gaze steadily at the Islamic dilemma, easier to devise revenge for the past than ideas for the future. Khomeini, with his absolutist pretensions and aggressive fantasies of jihad (holy war) against the West, demeans Islam; he gives it the aspect of a bizarre, dangerous but spiritually trivial cult. To the extent that Muslims support Khomeini, they share in the image of Islam that he has created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Second Vatican Council did much to remove what was for non-Catholics the ominousness of Catholicism. In 1964 Vatican II abolished the absolutist doctrine that "error has no rights," and instead accepted the right of all religions to worship as they will. Church Latin, unintelligible and sinister to many, gave way to the vernacular, and even some times to a rather cloying liturgical sweetness: guitar strumming around the altar, folk songs, the priest rigged out in sunburst vest ments that proclaim HERE COMES THE SON. Gone are the Legion of Decency, which prescribed and proscribed movies, and the censorious Index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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