Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones had tried to buy a $30,000 house in a new St. Louis development. They were refused because Mr. Jones was a Negro; and they sued the developer. In his search for supporting statutes, their lawyer, Samuel Liberman, came across the 1866 act and tossed it into his brief almost as an afterthought. He thought it was good tactics to try everything. "I figured, 'What have we got to lose?' " What indeed? The court never even got to his other points...
Never in the 73 years that Venice has played host to the art world's equivalent of the Olympics had the skirts worn by female artists and Biennale camp followers been so spectacularly brief. Alas, they were almost the only spectaculars on view. Gone altogether were the champagne gaiety, the busy art politicking and the horde of wealthy patrons who normally flock to the chic pre-opening parties in the palazzos along the Grand Canal. Instead, the opening of the 34th Venice Biennale had become a social and artistic shambles. This dubious achievement was yet another milestone in this...
...sampling on gun control 34 years ago, 84% of the nation favored strong legislation. The figure has remained at or near that level ever since. Yet Congress has assiduously ignored such evidence of public opinion. John Kennedy's assassination did not goad Capitol Hill to act. There was a brief flurry, centering around Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd's bill to ban the mail-order sale of all guns, but as soon as the N.R.A. started moving, Congress stopped. Its paralysis persisted after last April's slaying of Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy's murder in Los Angeles brought an appeal...
...have never quite been able to decide what role the family should play in their master plan for the ideal state. Marx defined the family as "antiquated" and predicted that it would vanish along with capitalism; the Bolshevik coup in 1917 thus brought casual mating and divorce, and a brief fling at free love. The man who stopped it was that formidable patriarch Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed that the family was "the basic cell of society" and put himself on the side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even Stalin was not above endorsing a bit of pragmatic promiscuity when...
...exercise in justification, McCarthy does not succeed. It is nevertheless a revealing and fascinating book, exposing its author as a man still skilled at innuendo and doublethink. Cohn employs these skills in a brief that is fat with incident and quotation-incident that is sometimes only remotely relevant, and quotation that is usually favorable. One of Cohn's own statements is devastating enough: he writes that McCarthy "bought Communism [as an issue] in much the same way as other people purchase a new automobile...