Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court," as it is known out of respect for its Chief Justice, more accurately called the "Black Court" after its chief philosopher. No other Justice in the past 25 years, says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, "has cared more, worked harder and done more to persuade his colleagues to accept his constitutional philosophy." In fact, no other Justice in the Court's entire history has lived to see more of his dissents turned into doctrine-doctrine that construes the Bill of Rights more generously than ever before as the open society's chief antidote to Government indifference...
Savory & Unsavory. If the Court has yet to officially accept some of Black's pet views of the Constitution, it has nonetheless swung his way ever since Chief Justice Warren came to Washington in 1953 and pulled together a divided Court that, within a year, unanimously outlawed school segregation. Eisenhower Appointee Warren soon added a solid third vote to the activist bloc of Black and William O. Douglas. In William J. Brennan Jr., another Ike appointee, the bloc picked up a fairly dependable fourth vote. The decisive fifth came in 1962, when the ailing judicial restrainer, Felix Frankfurter, retired...
Sizer aserted that Shady Hill should accept "as an article of faith, that there is much fine teaching going on in Cambridge public and parochial schools. I get mad when private school parents tell me they won't send their children to public schools," he said...
...legal questions, we receive more and more requests. The volume has grown to some hundreds a year, and it could soon be in the thousands. We have already passed the point where we can handle the matters satisfactorily. What are we to do? I have not been able to accept this conclusion, that we should ignore requests, either from the professional or the humane point of view...
...year veteran of the House, McCulloch will accept the award at an 8 p.m. meeting in the Union. He will dine with Young Republicans at 5 p.m. at Dunster House and will sip sherry in the Union beginning...