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After graduating from the School magna cum laude in 1948, Sacks clerked for Justice Augustus Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Later, he clerked for Justice Felix Frank-furter of the U.S. Supreme Court and practiced law in Washington before joining the Faculty...
...drawings are taken from a very impressive private art collection of David Daniels and selected by Mary Lee Bennett and Agnes Mongan, Curator of Drawings at the Fogg. The exhibit has already made a circuit of three midwestern cities, and Cambridge is its final stop. The catalogue is very complete, including a full page photograph of every work in the exhibit and a provenance and bibliographical sketch on most items...
...comes to dealing with the federal government. Virtually everyone is paralyzed by the desire to retain influence and effectiveness; and for many this activity becomes a consuming need, far more important than sorting out rights and wrongs. No one is willing to commit himself morally because that might short-circuit his links with the power center in Washington. It is difficult to decide whether these people are prevented from taking dissident stands by the lures of government funds and being "where it's at," or whether they don't have the minimum moral outrage to even want to dissent...
Your signed editorial, The Fortas Reflex (October 7), in its discussion of Judge Homer Thornberry is inaccurate and reflects either Mr. Bryson's innocence or ignorance of "where it is at" in the South. At the time Judge Thornberry was nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights investigated his Congressional record, found that he consistently supported liberal legislation, and therefore approved his nomination while opposing Governor Coleman...
During the years that Judge Thornberry has sat on the Fifth Circuit, the undersigned was a full-time civil rights lawyer in the South and it has been my privilege to appear before him on many occasions. I have also read every civil rights decision that he has written or participated in. Judge Thornberry was not and is not a "moderate by contrast with his peers" on that bench. He, together with Judges Tuttle, Wisdom and Brown form the liberal heart of the best federal appellate court in the country...