Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DECISION was met with outrage by the professional press, the Boston Globe heading the attack with a lead editorial echoing Justice Brennan's dissent, which argued that the ruling amounted to an affirmation of thought control...
...Brennan writes that, "The mere fact of school sponsorship does not, as the court suggests, license such thought control in the high school, whether through school suppression of disfavored viewpoints or through official assessment of topic insensitivity...
...case of the government exercising prior restraint, the press rushed to the defense of its first principles, attacking White's decision. Paradoxically, in this knee-jerk reaction, the press also forgot some of its first principles, for White was articulating a defense of autonomous control by newspaper owners, while Brennan hinted at an interpretation which would undermine the autonomy of the owners...
...MANDATE to inculcate moral and political values," Justice William Brennan Jr. points out, "is not a general warrant to act as thought police." The lesson was lost on the majority of Brennan's Supreme Court colleagues, who last week effectively deputized the nation's high school administrators to quash the expression of whatever opinions they deem objectionable. The opinion may well be used to justify censorship of student newspapers and journals in state universities. It mocks--or perhaps reveals--what passes for the nation's historic commitment to free speech...
...shoppers to buy. Even on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, signs proclaimed price cuts of up to 50%. Says Faye Ahrabi, assistant manager of the Chatelaine boutique on Rodeo: "If you didn't have a sale, you didn't make money." The situation is unlikely to improve soon. Says Bernard Brennan, president of the 315-store Montgomery Ward chain: "We think next year is going to be difficult...