Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group's lawyers, Edmund E. Fleming and Brian Michael Olmstead, also took the case to Washington yesterday. They presented their arguments for a temporary restraining order to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., but Brennan denied their request...
...LONG-WINDED LADY by Maeve Brennan. 238 pages. Morrow. $6. Collected from The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section, these bleak reportorial vignettes of life in Manhattan create the impression of a raw private perception struggling against total loneliness: the great city observed...
...Burger in favor of Black, 83, who shaped much of the court's doctrine during the Warren era. "He is the only man whose philosophy will appeal to a majority of old and new members," says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. Others believe that Justice Brennan will lead the court in certain areas, such as free speech. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz predicts great influence in some cases for Justice John Marshall Harlan, the Warren court's most frequent dissenter against the use of judicial solutions for social problems. The Burger court, more often than...
...only a one-joke film, salesman, like so much of direct cinema, is a one-short film. Now while we have no right, given the style and the technical different relationships, there is no excuse for spending half of our viewing time in close-medium one0short, mainly contemplating Paul Brennan's dejected visage. The best documentary camera work (Ricky Leacock, sometimes) is distinguished by its description of the whole in the detail, the capturing on hands in Leacock's Mothers day, for instance). Salsman, despite almost mythic possibilities (an existence trapped in motels with their cleaning women; ion rented cars...
...another pitch in American's long sales talk. The contradictions of salesman lie in the sinister meaning the history of capitalism has given to Luck 2:49. Christ, having been reprimanded by his parents for I must be about my Father's business?" A Catholic priest, spiritual consultant to Brennan's employer (each Bible salesman begin his talk wit "I'm from the church"), exhorts God to grant these good men "an abundant harvest." A salesman stands up and, an affirmation of fait, declares before the assembled conference (moral witnesses all), "I expect6 to make $35,000 next year." Applause...