Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went another 15-day sentence for disorderly conduct while leading Freedom Riders in Montgomery...
...court refused to review an 82-day rap for disorderly conduct. Shuttlesworth got that one during his 1958 effort to desegregate Birmingham buses. His crime: not moving to the rear...
...Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open," said the Supreme Court in 1964. In that famous decision (New York Times Co. v. Sullivan), the court ruled that a public official cannot collect libel damages even for false criticism of his official conduct unless he proves "actual malice." But who is a public official? The court did not say. As a result, lower courts have since extended the Times doctrine to reach "officials" ranging from a candidate for Congress to the law partner of a mayoral candidate...
...result poses a dilemma in U.S. state-federal relations: how to uphold civil rights without eroding states' rights, such as the right to conduct local elections, enforce local laws, select local juries and hold local trials. The irony is that Southern states are largely responsible for creating the dilemma-and the Federal Government is earnestly trying to avoid...
Perhaps literary figures shouldn't write. Perhaps they should just conduct salons, help budding talents bud, and occasionally murmur sage epigrams. Then their writing couldn't tarnish their legend and we could be content to read about them in nostagalgic memoirs and intellectual histories. But unfortunately Gertrude Stein did write a bad undramatic play and all the skill of a fine repertory company isn't enough to save...