Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes of oral arguments last week, Weber's lawyer, Michael Fontham, said that such an explicit racial quota violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans job discrimination on the basis of race. "You mean you can't avoid discrimination by discriminating?" said Justice Byron White. "Yes, your honor," Fontham replied emphatically...
...court disagreed. Writing for the majority. Justice Byron White called the safety factor "marginal at best," and said it was not enough to outweigh the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. There is, said White, "a 'grave danger' of abuse of discretion." The decision means that police will no longer be able to use such dubious reasons as the length of a driver's hair or the color of his skin to stop a car. In the court's view, wrote White, random checks by policemen are "an unsettling show of authority...
...binary numbers; an explanation, in language that even Dick and Jane can follow, of why it is possible (but not practical) to reverse the basic nuclear reaction and convert energy into matter; some witty Asimovian annotations on Shakespeare, the Bible and the poetry of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Byron; as lagniappe, he throws in a few limericks of the type An ability to dramatize. that family magazines do not reprint...
...Theater unaccountably deemed inferior and therefore failed to show in the U.S. For those who love the Bellamys, the broadcast of the lost eight is a signal cultural event, almost as important as if someone were to discover the missing fragments of the Satyricon or the diary of Lord Byron...
...much uncommon sense in the observation that once E.M. Forster was identified as a homosexual, a uni versal writer was diminished to the status of "a propaganda counter in a winless war. 'We've got Whitman, and I'm pretty sure we've got Byron, and we're still working on the big case, Shakespeare,' say the Gays. And the Straights reply by hanging on to Shakespeare's Dark Lady for dear life and giving up Whitman altogether...