Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recently, two so-called disadvantaged ten-year-olds were in a heated argument in school, where they were seated across the table from each other, drawing each other's portrait. One boy had drawn the other with an extremely long neck. When the art teacher inquired about the trouble, the irate youngster asked, "Who in the hell does he think he is, Modigliani?" MARIE L. LARKIN Supervisor of Art Board of Education St. Louis
...country. The court's concern was racial discrimination in housing-long one of the most emotional of civil rights issues. Only three months ago, housing was the target of a new and hard-fought civil rights law, but the court's decision made the lengthy congressional argument over that law seem largely academic. The long-ignored Civil Rights Act of 1866, said a majority of seven justices, already did the job; it is an unequivocal call for open housing. In blunt, unmistakable language, it "bars all racial discrimination, private as well as public, in the sale or rental...
...individuals who sell their own property without the aid of a real estate agent, or who rent rooms in a boarding house that they own and live in. That is the legislative will of 1968, said Harlan, and the court should not go beyond it. The majority countered the argument by observing that Congress had carefully noted that it was not superseding any earlier civil rights law. Besides, said Justice Stewart, there is a distinction between the new law and the old one. The 1968 law provides for punitive damages against those who discriminate, while the 1866 act merely bars...
Justice Byron White, who cast the fifth and crucial vote against Powell, was obviously moved by much of the Fortas argument. A chronic alcoholic, said White in a concurring opinion, cannot properly be punished merely for being intoxicated. Then why jail Powell? Because, said White, he had not proved that it was his alcoholism that compelled him to be intoxicated in public. By that cautious hairsplitting, White seemed to suggest that the next defendant who dries out long enough to convince the court that he could not stop himself from getting drunk in a public instead of a private place...
...what the script says he did, and Ralph Bellamy behind a full grey beard seems hardly sinister enough to be Dr. Sapirstein, the occultivated obstetrician. These minor lapses, though, do not seriously affect the bewitching qualities of the film-which, in addition to being superb suspense, is a wicked argument against planned parenthood...