Word: brennan
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...under New York's new juvenile obscenity law; he appealed. His contention was that the right of a person to read or see material "cannot be made to depend upon whether the citizen is an adult or a minor." But the contention does not wash, said Justice William Brennan, who is frequently the author of the court's opinions on obscenity...
...course, Grandpa picks up his baton, and it's choke-up time again, bringin' tears to the eyes and a lump to the studio. That family band is somethin', but that grandpa -he's somethin' else. Matter of fact, he's Walter Brennan and that means his creaky voice is goin' to turn all s's to slush. "Be sheein' ya shometime," he threatens. If it's in this kind of shtuff, nineteen-sheventy-eight would be too shoon...
Challenges to both laws have now reached the Supreme Court, and last week the nine Justices listened while lawyers for both sides presented oral arguments. The New York case involved the conviction of a store owner for selling four girlie publications, and when Justice Brennan pointed out that two of the magazines-Sir and Escapade-had previously been ruled non-obscene, Prosecutor William Cahn responded that while they may not be obscene to adults, they are to children...
When a new gut appears, the word travels fast. Meteorology 100 at the University of Wisconsin drew 400 students one semester, 800 the next. The Rev. Thomas J. Brennan's freshman philosophy course at Notre Dame is so popular, and easy, that enrollment is limited-and athletes and foreign students seem to be preferred. Their most difficult task is putting up with Father Brennan's idiosyncrasy of flipping matchbooks at them during class. Catching them is not easy; he has developed a curve and a slider...
...years is indeed impressive. Its faculty is regarded by many as the finest in the U.S. More than 40,000 lawyers have studied there, including such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter. Among today's leaders, the school has produced Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Yale President Kingman Brewster and Sociologist David Riesman. The quality is matched by quantity. Harvard Law has prepared fully one-fourth of all U.S. law professors, and its 21,000 living graduates constitute one-sixth of the lawyers in the country...