Word: brennans
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Officially, the court has tried to follow the guidelines of Justice William Brennan who declared that nothing could be banned as pornographic unless it predominantly "appeals to a prurient interest," affronts "contemporary community standards," and is "utterly without redeeming social importance." That definition proved so elastic that it has been stretched to permit almost anything, as can be attested at many a neighborhood-movie marquee or magazine rack...
...illegal entrepreneurs unless he has something of value to offer them." Treading a delicate line, Rehnquist ruled that "it is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind of the defendant" that the official conduct becomes unacceptable. Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall constituted a dismayed minority. As Stewart said: "The purpose of the entrapment defense cannot be to protect persons who are 'otherwise innocent.' Rather, it must be to prohibit unlawful governmental activity in instigating crime." The focus, in other words, should be not on the defendant...
...film. Ernest Hemingway and Director Howard Hawks worked out changes in Hemingway's novel. Then William Faulkner wrote the screenplay and Hawks directed with his tongue in his cheek. The filming was spontaneous and the plot got lost, boiling down to Bogart and his tough, sexy dame -- and Walter Brennan. "Ever get stuck by a dead...
...From his early investigative days to the present, the President's strength has been based in Middle America, not in Cambridge. But with the exception of Secretary Brennan, who, impartial observers acknowledge, embodies the finest traditions of American labor with his impassioned defense of free speech, his pearl-handled Derringer and his heroic oppostion to imperialistic wars, the President's recent appointments have been Harvard men -- Richardson, Weinberger, and most recently Dunlop. Few of these pointy-headed intellectuals can park a bicycle straight, and most if not all of them put on their pants one leg at a time...
...that forcing employers to pay youths as much as adults only discourages them from hiring the 14% of youngsters aged 16 to 19 who are jobless. Labor leaders argue that establishing a teen-age differential would prompt some employers to fire adult workers and hire youths to replace them. Brennan did propose that a teen-ager's pay be upped to the full adult minimum wage after 13 weeks on the job, but he offered no plan to prevent an employer from hiring a youngster for 13 weeks, then firing him and hiring another...