Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed bill is passed Cambridge may be among the first communities to begin a pilot program, according to State Representative Byron Rushing (D-Boston...
...decision to keep out outside reporters troubled at least one journalist. "I'm confused about why," said Byron Barnett of Boston's Channel 7. "[BSA President] Art Hall says it is the University's decision...
...conservatives strictly limited to those five votes. Byron White is likely to join them on some cases, often those involving criminal law and police powers. Even John Paul Stevens supports them on many free-speech issues. That leaves Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun, both 82, the oldest members of the court, as its only unbudging liberals. "The swing Justices no longer control the outcome," says Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger. "There's no swing Justice, really...
...white woman, he was beaten, shot and then thrown into the Tallahatchie River in 1955. An all-white jury acquitted two white men of the killing. In 1963 Henry's N.A.A.C.P. associate, Medgar Evers, was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson. His accused murderer, Byron de la Beckwith, was freed when all-white juries failed to reach a verdict. Now the state, seeking to atone for old wrongs, is trying to extradite him from Tennessee to try him again for the killing. Henry himself was arrested several times for his civil rights activities, and was once...
What they feared was pretty much exactly what followed: the exposing of personal foibles for public inspection. Lord Byron became a celebrity because of his poetry and a reprobate and rogue thanks to allegations about his sexual relations with his half sister. Charles Dickens tried to disguise his relationship with the young actress Ellen Ternan, all for naught, since suspicions about its true nature flourished then and ever since. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians wickedly and fastidiously punctured an era of hypocrisy, and the writings of Sigmund Freud unleashed the psychological deluge...