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...legal expertise. But Navasky, himself a Yale Law School graduate who taught legal research before becoming a journalist, argues that they represented "the code of Ivy League gentlemen." They revered genteel negotiation and the separation of powers even when the situation-as in dealing with Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett-demanded blunter instruments. In the end, Kennedy's ranking aides were more hindrance than help in bringing innovation to the pursuit of justice...
CHARLES CLARK, 46. Also a Nixon appointee to the Fifth Circuit Court, in 1969, Clark likewise had no earlier experience on the bench. In 1962, as special assistant to the Mississippi attorney general, he successfully defended Governor Ross Barnett on contempt charges for forcibly resisting the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Civil rights advocates consider him a moderate Southerner...
Unhappily, as Sinologist Doak Barnett points out in his book, A New U.S. Policy Toward China, Washington faces a dilemma. "Every possible course of action," writes Barnett, "involves some undesirable costs and risks." There is, in short, no easy solution...
...hidden forks in American art history was reached on Jan. 29, 1948, when a painter named Barnett Newman painted a thin, rough orange stripe down the exact center of a small dark red canvas, and left it alone. It is hardly an exaggeration that most of the symmetrical format, stripe, minimal, and otherwise post-De Kooning art produced in New York in the '60s refers, in the end, to this modest picture that Newman called Onement I. Newman's ruthless pursuit of the implications of this canvas both split his work from the main...
...tennis team won't start playing matches again until its southern trip over spring vacation. But Masterson, Lindner, Barnett, Loring and Inguard will practice all winter on the recently resurfaced Palmer-Dixon indoor courts...