Word: confirmant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John M. Harlan, 67, whose sight is failing. Should Johnson be returned to office next year, he could wind up naming six Supreme Court Justices, the third highest presidential record* after Washington's ten and F.D.R.'s nine. Still attuned to senatorial psychology (he voted to confirm all seven nominees considered during his Senate years), L.B.J. knows enough to stay away from any unacceptable nominee. But beyond that, there is an ocean of qualities and qualifications to contemplate. The task is all the more vital since he may well determine the future makeup of the entire court...
...answer by itself did not satisfy Martin. He rejected many a positive-sounding venireman because his manner showed a sign of unsureness that might possibly aid the defense. To confirm it. he asked: "Would you sign a verdict of death?" Faced with that specter of personal responsibility, some veniremen backed down...
...intent to confirm the guilt or establish the innocence of Hiss," writes San Francisco psychoanalysist Meyer Zeligs in the preface to his "analysis" of the Hiss-Chambers case. The disavowal is necessary. Friendship and Fratricide only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime. But Zeligs is less than consistent in his avowed aims: he denies at the outset any desire to prove Hiss's innocence, because he is treading on unsure ground; later the distinction between pschoanalysis and detective-work is ignored and finally abandoned when Zeligs finds certain propositions incompatible with the possibility...
Last week the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, the vigorous new Catholic bishop of Rochester, N.Y. (TIME, Feb. 10), startled his flock by announcing that the confirmation age in his diocese would be raised to that of normal high school graduation; in Rochester, as in most other U.S. Catholic dioceses, children have traditionally been confirmed between the ages of nine and twelve. Explaining the change, Sheen declared: "At present, bishops are asked to confirm tots and send them out as soldiers of Christ. Confirmation should not be administered generally before the candidate is ready to exercise his lay priesthood...
Last week's disclosure of the Central Intelligence Agency's extensive financial interests, not to mention the duties it required of the recipients of its largesse, again confirm the suspicion that the agency's free-wheeling functions should be curtailed...