Word: bre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contention that Lady Chatterley's Lover is a dull, dirty book after all, and it offered the first English translation of the pseudonymous Soviet critic Abram Tertz. Last week with its September issue, the magazine was again on top of a literary cause célèbre. It printed the first English translation of the open letter written to Tito in July by Mihajlo Mihajlov. The letter politely explained why the Yugoslav writer felt that he must persist in his intention to found an "opposition newspaper." Four weeks after writing it, he was arrested (TIME...
Nearly forgotten nowadays is the fact that Malraux's passion for art once led him to commit an act of downright thievery that got him arrested. The incident, a cause célèbre in 1923, has popped up again with the publication in France of the memoirs of his ex-wife Clara, and a biography by Walter Langlois subtitled Indochina Adventure...
Deep Conflict. Freedman's case has since become a legal cause célèbre across the country. For one thing, it raises a problem in academic freedom: Can a law professor be disbarred for what he preaches in a private classroom as opposed to what he practices in a public courtroom? To Freedman's academic superiors, the answer is clear. Freedman, 38, has just been promoted to full professor and given a raise. Meanwhile, the grievance committee has exonerated him by a vote of 8 to 1. That does not mean that Freedman...
Innocent Mind. What makes all this a current cause célèbre in assorted law reviews is the fact that statutory rape is a rare anomaly in U.S. law. In most crimes, notes Omaha Lawyer Larry W. Myers in the Michigan Law Review, the prosecution must prove mens rea (the guilty mind), an ancient concept that includes criminal intent. Not so for statutory rape. An American may beat the rap by proving that he didn't do it, proving that the girl was of age-or (in Virginia) marrying her. In most cases, though, a claim that...
...with the New York Philharmonic while Leonard Bernstein is on his sabbatical. Steinberg will also make his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, conducting 24 performances of three operas. "I have some real killers arranged for New York," he says gleefully, referring to Berlioz' rarely performed Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, a work for 180 musicians that will require the West Point Band as well as the Philharmonic, Leon Kirchner's Second Piano Concerto, and the American première of Bartok's Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra. "Then I have something for the New York snobs...