Word: cannoneering
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Stories of judicial arrogance are commonplace. When a Japanese-American lawyer requested additional tune for a trial, a federal judge responded: "How much time did you give us at Pearl Harbor?" Former Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Noel Cannon, who painted her chambers pink, kept a pet Chihuahua by her side and was called the "Dragon Lady," once threatened to give a traffic officer "a vasectomy with a .38." While hearing a voting rights case brought by blacks in Alabama in the '60s, Federal Judge William Harold Cox exclaimed, "Who is telling these people that they can get in there...
With many of their betters competing at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, the U.S. track and field team felt like cannon fodder. Yet the 35-member team brought back America's seven gold medals, including all three in the sprint relays. Gloated Benn Fields, silver-medalist in the high jump: "I'm tired of hearing what dogs...
Tuesday afternoon, religious leaders: Jimmy Allen, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention; Robert Bellah, sociology professor, University of California at Berkeley; William Cannon, United Methodist bishop of Georgia; Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York; Patrick Flores, Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso; Archbishop lakovos, head...
...disgrace to the game," Gar cia fumed later. Added First Base Um pire Larry Barnett: "He goes goofy. He can't control himself, screaming, ranting and raving. Every time he comes out, he's shot out of a cannon." As for Weaver, he blithely, if inelegantly, explained: "I was in the bathroom throwing up. They made me sick...
Still, journalism in America was a high-risk trade. Editors were always in danger of being challenged to duels or horsewhipped or beaten up by gangs. During the War of 1812, one antiwar newspaper was actually blasted by a mob with a cannon. On the frontier, tarring and feathering editors was a popular pastime. Symbolically, of course, it still is. The press, its reach almost infinitely expanded by electronics, has come a long way since those days. Yet, the public, despite its daily if not hourly intimacy with the press, does not really understand it very well. That lack...