Word: bork
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...ALMOST tempting to feel sorry for Robert Bork. He stood on the brink of attaining the power and prestige afforded a justice of the United States Supreme Court, only to be denied the object of a life's work and thought--and, some would say, politicking. But if the predicament Judge Bork found himself in when he learned the Senate would not assent to his nomination deserves our understanding, it does not merit our sympathy...
...heard much of Bork's brilliance and intellect. There are many other minds roaming America's legal community at least equally as keen. Yet Robert Bork was the darling of the Reagan Administration, one of the first lawyers it put on the prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals and one of the first names on its short list of potential Supreme Court nominees...
Glasser said the debate about Bork signalled the nations disillusionment with the extremism of a recent conservative coalition of politicians and religious leaders that he said has threatened gains made in civil liberties during the 1960s...
...Bork in my view represents the last best hope of that movement, it's instrument and theoretician," Glassor said...
...There arose the charge that Bork was not a conservative but an extremist," he said. "That demonstrated that the whole recent conservative movement was actually extremist also, that it was to overturn the real traditional values...