Word: connorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact is that original intent, as Attorney General Meese uses it, simply melts when held up to the flame of history. Justice Sandra O'Connor reaffirmed the point not long ago in her concurrence barring Alabama's moment of silence in public schools: "It is unlikely that the (framers) anticipated the problems of interaction of church and state in the public schools," she wrote, for the simple reason that, in the 18th century, there was virtually no public education as we know...
...Catholic Archdiocese of New York may join the crusade. John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, said last week that he is considering organizing a giant antidrug youth rally, possibly in Yankee Stadium. The Cardinal is also contemplating increasing the ranks of drug counselors at the city's Catholic schools and holding a series of prayer vigils...
Critics and viewers alike have hailed it as the best movie musical ever made. Now two of its biggest fans, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor, plan to add up the magic numbers of their 34-year-old MGM hit, Singin' in the Rain, plus many others, during an eight-month tour of the U.S., Britain and Australia beginning next winter. Reynolds, who has been touring with her own show on the variety circuit, phoned O'Connor, who had been appearing in a nostalgia-trip revival of Showboat, and the two tried out their act in a smash stint three...
...today's rulings, Brennan was joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...dessert at the Scalia home in McLean, Va., guests are often found grouped around an upright piano in the living room. At the bench, banging out old tunes and, in his hearty baritone, leading the crowd of amateur songsters (which often includes such regulars as Justices Rehnquist and O'Connor), is the master of the house, Antonin Scalia, known to friends and family as Nino...