Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he has turned columnist in 16 Southwestern dailies, 13 weeklies and two monthly magazines, Harrison is still stirring up trouble so strenuously that Judge Paul Tackett of the state district court in Albuquerque has just hit him with a $250 fine and a ten-day jail sentence for contempt of court. While the punishment itself does not seem unbearably burdensome, the case has reverberated far beyond the borders of New Mexico...
...Hard a Kick? After Harrison's sixth attack, a lawyer for Morris charged that the columns were in contempt of court because they were "designed to ridicule, intimidate and influence the court" and presented "a clear and present danger to the administration of justice in New Mexico." The judge tried Harrison for contempt and found him guilty. The press has less freedom to comment on pending cases than on closed cases, and Tackett ruled that since he had deferred sentencing, the Morris case was still before the court...
...from frivolous. In an unusual shortening of standard procedure, the court not only consented to review the case of Mary Hamilton v. Alabama; it made its decision at the same time. Without even hearing oral argument, and without handing down a written opinion, the court summarily reversed the contempt conviction. With Miss Mary Hamilton concurring, the court ruled in effect that calling Negroes by their first names is a form of racial discrimination...
...concerned with the orderly structure of society, it is not surprising that Cheever is much obsessed with roots-particularly his own. Los Angeles, on a brief visit, horrified him as the haven of all the U.S.'s displaced persons. In a final statement of pity and contempt for one character, he wrote: "He doesn't come from anyplace really. I mean he doesn't have anything nice to remember and so he borrows other people's memories...
...said the press can be held in "criminal contempt" if this law is violated and cited the instance when one newspaper described an accused murderer as a human vampire who drank the blood of his victims." He called television coverage of Lee Harvey Oawald dreadful...