Word: byron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder if Michael Jackson is a fan of the poet Lord Byron, who used to use the skull of a dead friend as his drinking container. Byron also wanted the skull of the poet Percy Shelley after Shelley drowned, but couldn't get it. Come on Michael, I'm sure there are stores in your neighborhood that sell other types of drinking containers. I'm sure they're cheaper...
...Abrams quoted Justice Byron White as sayingthat the First Amendment creates a "virtuallyinsurmountable barrier between government and theprint media so far as government tampering, inadvance of publication, with news and editorialcontent...
...such measures are necessary underscores the fact that not everyone welcomes the growing role of women in the armed forces. While polls show increasing popular support for women in arms and even for their participation in combat, that last barrier is not likely to fall anytime soon. Congresswoman Beverly Byron, who chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel and Compensation, strongly supports the Pentagon reforms, but she admits, "There is a chauvinistic, male repugnance to women in direct combat that I share." Lorrie Hayward, a Nebraska-born lieutenant stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany, is blunter. Says...
Writing for the majority in last week's case, Justice Byron White saw a distinction. While the First Amendment prevented a school from silencing certain kinds of student expression, he said, it did not also require a school actively to promote such expression in plays and publications produced under its auspices. White, who had joined the majority in the Tinker case, ruled this time that educators may exert editorial control in such instances "so long as their actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." Such concerns, he noted, might extend to work that is "poorly written, inadequately researched, biased...
...decision, the Court supported a Hazelwood, Missouri, high school principal who prohibited the printing of two pages of the school's student-edited newspaper. He objected to two articles--he thought one might violate some students' privacy, the other unfair to a person mentioned. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White called the action "not unreasonable" given the grounding of the principal's concerns that the contents of school newspapers are of "legitimate pedigogical" concern...