Word: blunderbussing
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Matter of Taste. At Esquire, Sorel introduced another series known as "The Spokesman." One such was Charles de Gaulle, dressed as a Puritan and carrying a Bible and a blunderbuss; the French President had opposed state payments for contraceptives on the ground that they would be used for pleasure rather than health. Last May, in the Atlantic, Sorel unleashed "Sorel's Unfamiliar Quotations," in which bulbous characters are linked with punnish captions. Under a sullen, bleary Frank Sinatra: "Mia culpa...
...blunderbuss way, John Wayne has also tried to help make the war comprehensible. But except for the technical excellence of a few gory, glory-hallelujah battle scenes, Green Berets is strictly for the hawks...
...Such blunderbuss terror tactics have little to do with firm and wise law enforcement. Nor does the city's announced intention of blackmailing hippies with a scattergun enforcement of vagrancy laws: arrested hippies must either go to jail or get out of town...
...dissent was unusually bitter. Condemning the "blunderbuss fashion" in which the majority acted, Justice Tom Clark blazed that "no court has ever reached out so far to destroy so much with so little." The argument of vagueness is flimsy, he continued, since the language of Feinberg "obviously springs from" such federal statutes as the Smith Act, which the court has previously upheld. He added that the decision's wording is so broad that henceforth no state will feel safe in making loyalty requirements. "The majority has swept away one of our most precious rights- the right of self-preservation...
Emphatic Rejection. Black's theory appalled his longtime libertarian colleague, Justice William O. Douglas, who spoke for three other dissenters (Warren, Brennan, Fortas) in blasting the court for inviting the use of trespass laws as "a blunderbuss to suppress civil rights." Not only was trespass being wrongfully applied to public property, argued Douglas, but custodians of such property were being given "awesome power to decide whose ideas may be expressed." Douglas called the decision "a wonderful police-state doctrine" that will "only increase the forces of frustration which the conditions of secondclass citizenship are generating amongst...