Word: byronic
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...arguing against each appeal, Government lawyers studiously avoided mention of the sensitive embassy issue. Justice Byron White, a former Deputy Attorney General who wrote the majority opinion, also made no mention of embassy bugging. White argued that the adversary system entitles the defendant to see all the records of improper eavesdropping, and if it seems worthwhile, to try to prove that the eavesdropping has "tainted" the Government's case. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Abe Fortas generally shared White's view. But on the other hand, Fortas said, the judge alone should be allowed to decide whether...
...record in the 1000 with a 2:08.6 clocking last Saturday and is listed as a co-favorite in that event tonight. The fleet redhead has worked hard this week in anticipation of a tight race with Villanova's Frank Murphy, St. John's' Phil Tobin, and NYU's Byron Dyce...
Such restraints hurt. Pushkin depend edon his writing for a living and, in fact, became Russia's first really pro fessional writer. But restraint could not temper his flamboyant mode of life, which was Byronic - though not in the usual sense. Pushkin's affinity was for the rational, irreverent side of Byron's temperament, and he delighted in mocking the romantic conventions of his day. In an early poem, The Caucasian Captive, he had a maiden fall into a stream and the hero refuse to jump in and rescue her. "I've swum in Caucasian streams...
...libertarians, strongly opposed the decision. Fortas argued that the FBI agent's affidavit and the informant's word together were sufficient to establish "probable cause." From the bench, Black angrily attacked his colleagues for trying to supervise local magistrates "from a thousand miles away." Justice Byron White said that he was voting with the majority to avoid a deadlocked court (Justice Thurgood Marshall had abstained). Declaring himself confused by the majority opinion, White called for "fullscale reconsideration" of the precedents for it. White's proposal may be seconded by the court's law-and-order-conscious...
Quennell's powers were triumphantly evident in his two-volume study of Byron, the only English poet who could rival Pope as a satirist. In Alexander Pope, Quennell has found another genius for a subject, though with him the difficulties are greater. The poet who wrote "the proper study of mankind is man" made no great study of himself, whereas Byron was his own biographer and the actor-manager of his own theater in every line he wrote. The clues to Pope's nature are to be found in the quality of his age, with its political-theological...