Word: byronic
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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...
...majority's reasoning provoked a sharp dissent from Justice Byron R. White, who ordinarily sides with the Chief Justice on cases involving criminal procedure. Speaking for himself and Justices Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens, White took the unusual step of reading aloud his own strongly worded opinion from the bench. Confessions are different from other kinds of evidence, White reasoned. Their impact upon a juror's thinking is too powerful...
Last fall he narrowly failed in his bid to unseat an eight-year incumbent state representative, Byron Rushing (D-Suffolk...
...fathered nine children, took the company's lawyer to task for making "a farce of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act." That act, a 1978 amendment to Title VII, ensured that federal antibias protections cover pregnant workers. In another concurring opinion, Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Byron White upheld the majority decision but allowed that there may be instances where "sex-specific fetal protection policy" is justifiable...
Rudenstine is the author of Sidney's Poetic Development, published in 1967, and an editor of English Poetic Satire: Wyatt to Byron, published...