Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four dissenters objected that the ruling put the President "above the law." Wrote Justice Byron White: "It is a reversion to the old notion that the King can do no wrong." He chided the majority for abandoning the approach used in other immunity cases: that the shield attaches to functions rather than to offices. Though district attorneys, for example, have absolute immunity while prosecuting a case, they do not have it when directing an investigation. White also argued that an impenetrable shield denies an aggrieved citizen his right to an adequate remedy...
...breathing room they keep asking for in order to get their industry back on track. The action, though, could bring on the very sort of risky and pointless transatlantic trade battles that would benefit no one. Either way, the outlook for steelmen is not encouraging. not encouraging. - By Christopher Byron. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/Paris
...probably be quickly adopted, will require that all repurchase transactions involving members must take into account accrued interest on the security. Said Association President Allan Rogers of Bankers Trust of the new rule: "Most people have favored it for a long time." Better late, apparently, than never. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and Samuel Jackson Snead all will hit 70 this year, a pretty good score when you consider the course. Almost 40 years since he was able to win eleven golf tournaments in a row, Nelson is in Texas being venerable and staying available to Tom Watson whenever the kid needs a lesson. Hogan is in Texas being difficult and hanging up on Gary Player when the South African calls for advice. ("Mr. Player, are you affiliated with a club manufacturer?" "Dunlop." "Call Dunlop." Click.) Snead last week was in Ohio being Snead and so was playing...
...sense of spaciousness and mystery. The modern world's adventuring began with the great explorers sailing west from the Renaissance. Next came the age of grand Continental travel, and then a highly literary travel culminating in the wanderings of men like Evelyn Waugh and D.H. Lawrence and Robert Byron in the years after the first World War. Travel had a certain Noel Coward élan. Robert Benchley is said to have cabled home from Venice: STREETS FULL OF WATER. ADVISE...