Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court directed the acquittal of five California Communists and ordered a new trial for nine others, all convicted in 1952 under the antisubversive Smith Act...
Meanwhile, Justice Department attorneys wearily totted up the damage of recent Supreme Court decisions: some reckoned that of 89 Communists convicted under the Smith Act, at least 40 will probably be able to get new trials-or outright acquittals from the Supreme Court. Furthermore, there is scant hope of convicting many of the 27 awaiting trial because of the double impact of the California Communist decisions and the Jencks decision (TIME, June 17) requiring the Government to allow defendants to see pertinent FBI files-or drop the case. If anyone doubted before, last week made it clear that the Supreme...
...ballooning and not enough legal ballast. More than a year ago sharp legal-eagle eyes began to open wide at signs of changes to come. The Warren court reversed the Pennsylvania State conviction of Communist Steve Nelson on the ground that federal security laws (notably the very same Smith Act) had pre-empted state antisedition statutes. Then a year ago the court agreed to review the case of the California Communists (finally decided last week) after earlier Supreme Courts had refused similar hearings...
...these advertising guys-real phonies-would be better off running a gas station. You've got people going to the theater here simply because they ought to be seen at the theater. They hang out in these ginmills just to make sure they're in the act. What act...
...opera's climactic moment, Moses causes the golden calf to collapse onstage ("Be gone, you image of powerlessness"). In the third act (not performed in Zurich because Schoenberg never completed the music for it) he denounces Aaron for having used God as a means to human ends. Aaron dies and Moses gives his uncompromising message to his people: "In the desert you shall achieve the goal: unity with...