Word: bastardize
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...finally cracked TV and will get the cleaned-up Robin Hood treatment from ABC. ABC also has a variant of Bonanza called The Big Valley; Barbara Stanwyck plays Lorne Greene, dispensing wise advice and stuff to her three sons and a daughter, plus her dead husband's bastard boy for extra spice. Robert Horton, late of Wagon Train, has now forgotten his name and goes searching around the West for it as A Man Called Shenandoah (ABC). He may bump into Lloyd Bridges, who has come out of the sea and is also wandering the West trying...
...Gravely is a Los Angeles slum child, an unwanted bastard, and a musical genius. At five he steals a violin and teaches himself to play. At seven he sneaks into the empty Hollywood Bowl, sits down at the Steinway, improvises in an ecstasy that lasts all night. At 13, carrying a couple of stolen instruments, he heads east on a slow freight. He lands in New Orleans, immerses himself in jazz, and suffers a creative convulsion that brings him to the edge of madness. He follows his daemon to East Harlem, then on to Germany, where he composes an electronic...
...before the courts is a case that marks a milestone in this facet of the law. The plaintiff is an illegitimate child, conceived during the rape of a hospitalized mental patient. Suit has been filed in her behalf to recover damages for the mental anguish of being born a bastard...
...could prove negligence. But it demanded dismissal of the infant's case without a trial. Never before had such a case been successfully pleaded, the state pointed out. In 1963 the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a similar suit (Zepeda v. Zepeda) on the ground that recognition of a bastard's right to collect damages would mean creation of a new tort. If that happened, ruled the Illinois court, "one might seek damages for being born of a certain color, another because of race, one for being born with a hereditary disease, another for inheriting unfortunate family characteristics...
Cries for Justice. New York Court of Claims Judge Sidney Squire ruled that the case must go to trial nonetheless. "The novelty and lack of precedent for declaring that the baby bastard has a cause of action should not be a deterrent to such ruling," ruled Judge Squire, quoting the late jurist, Sir Percy Winfield: "If that were a valid objection, the common law would now be what it was in the Plantagenet period." The state's motion that the bastard's case, if tried and won, would leave the courts open to an endless array of claims...