Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gault, a decision he wrote last year is perhaps the high point of his judicial career so far. In theory the juvenile system allowed the judge paternal discretion in dealing with young offenders; in practice, they were often convicted on flimsy evidence. But juvenile courts, said Fortas, should be bound by the same rules as adult courts: "Neither the 14th Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone. Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court." A dissent last month from the 5-to-4 decision that labeled public drunkenness...
Outpouring of Hate. Often he felt duty bound to tell his audiences painful things because "there are no magic solutions, we are not magicians or Santa Clauses." In rural Ontario, he told prosperous farmers that their taxes would have to pay for programs in the poorer provinces. In British Columbia, where the shipyards have been hurt by foreign competition, Trudeau talked, instead, about Canada's low-income minorities. "What about the shipyards?" a heckler shouted. "What about the Indians and Eskimos?" Trudeau shot back, "Have you thought about them...
Even some labor leaders agree that the problem is serious. "Generally speaking, our industrial relations are almost unbelievably bad," says Lord Delacourt-Smith, general secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union. One key reason is that British unions operate in a legal near-vacuum. They are not bound by agreements they sign, are not liable for authorized acts of their officials. Industry-wide bargaining is al most nonexistent, and there are no provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to stall outrageous strikes. Still, the Royal Commission, which was headed by 70-year-old Lord Donovan, a former leader...
...bound, his future meditations...
There was a zest and a joy and a capacity for facing and surviving disaster that are very moving and very rare. Perhaps we were, all of us-pimps, whores, racketeers, church members, and children-bound together by the nature of our oppression. If so, within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed...