Word: byronical
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...month before his 30th birthday in 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in a sailing accident on the Mediterranean. Back in London, the Gentleman's Magazine harrumphed: "We ought as justly to regret the decease of the Devil." A far different post-mortem came from Lord Byron, who called Shelley "the best and the least selfish man I ever knew. I never knew one who was not a beast in comparison...
Under the so-called American rule, lawyers' fees in the U.S. are not generally charged to the loser, as they are in England, for example. Justice Byron White conceded for the majority that "the encouragement of private action to implement public policy has been viewed as desirable in a variety of circumstances." But, he concluded, Congress has not "extended any roving authority to the Judiciary to allow counsel fees ... whenever the courts might deem them warranted." Siding with William Brennan in disagreement, Thurgood Marshall cited a number of "judge-made exceptions" to the American rule and argued that courts...
...make one of its new staff writers. David Gelber, the new editor. It was Gelber who was given the power to fire people in a more streamlined way, a power he used to dispose of the staff writer caught in the marital triangle. (He also fired film critic Stuart Byron, who is suing the Real Paper for back pay and bonuses, claiming that his rights as a staffer/owner were violated...
...Stuart Byron thinks that a staff-owned paper must be a "writer's book" like Esquire rather than an "editor's book" like New York magazine. That is, a staff-owned paper should enshrine the right of writers to "go off in directions the editors don't like." He cites the Village Voice, which doesn't have the Real Paper's staff share holder structure but whose pages are peppered with fiefdoms where writers like Jill Johnston and Jonas Mekas run amok without editorial interference. A staff owned paper that does not allow that freedom, Byron thinks, will inevitably...
Kingman Brewster, president of Yale; Gov. Ella Grasso of Connection; and Associate Supreme Court Justices Potter Stewart and Byron White were among the alumni who attended the gathering...