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...called, in a reminiscence of 14th century England, Recorder's Court. Little beyond its name is Chaucerian. Until recently it was a paradigm of judicial systems crumbling under the burden of civic decay. Justin Ravitz, now a judge of Recorder's Court, once described it as "the cesspool of the legal world...
...Congressmen should go home and check their constituents before deciding what to do about Watergate [Jan. 14]? That's like standing by a cesspool and asking someone else if it stinks before you decide yourself. What ever happened to men who make up their own minds on the basis of what is morally right or wrong rather than on what is politically expedient...
...meeting in New York City last month (TIME, Nov. 26), was expected to issue a strong statement on Watergate. The union's retiring president, Maurice Eisendrath, who died suddenly as the meeting began, had planned to scold Jews for their silence in the face of "the heinously immoral cesspool" of the Nixon Administration. But some delegates, nervous about U.S. aid to Israel, decided, as one of them put it, that it was "the height of folly to bite the hand that feeds us." Though the convention deplored Watergate as "a dangerous assault on constitutional liberties," it defeated resolutions calling...
...turned up evidence that directly implicates the President in the bugging operation or the alleged attempt to cover up the affair. At the moment, however, Nixon watches helplessly while the cesspool swirls around...
...Grier and Cobbs too unless they succeed in their efforts to free their psychological orientation from models of psychopathology, and come full-circle to re-definitions in conjunct with black culture. Nations consist of individuals, and for the time being, most individuals are shaped by the cauldron, or cesspool, or nest of their families, or the absence of family. No more visible chains on the body, the ultimate battleground is for the chains of definitions and fantasy that hang on the mind...