Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...easy to fight against the war in Vietnam as it was to support civil-rights in the South. From now on issues will rarely be presented that are so clear-cut. The struggle now is to attempt the massive restructuring of a complex and highly industralized society. This will inevitably be a desperately slow process and we may as well resign ourselves to patience helped by a deepening of commitment...
Died. Francis Biddle, 82, Attorney General from 1941 to 1945 and U.S. judge at the 1945-46 Nurnberg war-crimes trials; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass. An able and wealthy lawyer who traced his ancestry to the nation's first Attorney General, Civil Libertarian Biddle often objected to the decisions of the times-as when thousands of Japanese nationals were interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He felt no qualms, however, in dealing with eight Nazi agents smuggled into the country in 1942, and demanded stiff sentences (six were executed). At Nurnberg, he staunchly defended...
...Really Dragged but Nothing Gets Me Down, is going from resentment to resistance. The book is an attempt to put a little chest hair on that artificial category of literature known as "young-adult novels." Hentoff injects such themes as Viet Nam, racism, generation gap, civil rights, drugs, black rage, white guilt and, for old times' sake, a touch of antiSemitism. Sex is still a nono, although the vocabulary is raunched up with such words as "bastard," "damn it," and "hard...