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...week's end Philadelphians no longer had to go out of town to dispose of their trash. Garbage haulers decided to go back to work after Common Pleas Court Judge Edward J. Blake declared that some 2,400 strikers and their leaders were in contempt for ignoring his back-to-work order earlier in the week. Blake had ruled that the garbage constituted a "clear and present danger" to the public health and that the strikers should start cleaning up the mess. Mayor W. Wilson Goode then announced that he could hire 2,400 sanitation workers in 24 hours...
Flouting the rules is no way to get ahead in an institution steeped in tradition. But Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who died last week at his home near Washington at the age of 86, often treated the U.S. Navy -- and its rules -- with contempt. He ignored orders he did not like, wore his uniform sparingly and preferred bluntness to civility. Still, he survived in the service for more than 63 years, longer than any other officer in U.S. naval history. Adjectives -- brilliant, egotistic, rude, unorthodox -- clung to Rickover like barnacles to boats. Yet it was the diminutive...
...watch with apparent approval while his client commits forbidden acts to a jury does nothing less than order the lawyer to be a knowing instrument of totally unethical and dishonest conduct," he protested. "Silence here is participation; it is cooperation with evil." Judge Shapiro held Rubin in criminal contempt and sentenced him to 30 days. Fully prepared, with underwear and shaving kit stuffed in his briefcase, Rubin last week heard Shapiro pack him off to jail. Undaunted, the lawyer arranged for a habeas corpus petition to be filed with the Florida Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, he was released...
...court's decisions last week were rooted in drawn-out battles. The New York case involves Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, which has been in and out of court since 1963 because of alleged discriminatory practices. Twice the union has been held in contempt for not obeying lower-court orders aimed at enhancing minority representation. In the latest phase of the case, the union, aided by the Justice Department, was trying to overturn a lower-court order that it work toward the goal of including 29% nonwhites among its membership -- a figure based on the percentage...
That great leveling effect, however, has not made pop any more palatable to old-line intellectuals. The contempt was, until rather recently, obligatory and absolute. Mandarin ill will reached a peak in "Masscult & Midcult," Dwight Macdonald's acutely cranky 1960 essay. "Masscult is bad in a new way," he wrote, because "it doesn't even have the theoretical possibility of being good." A pernicious "Gresham's law" was inevitable: good art would be driven out by the bad -- by pop. Another ferocious holdout is William Gass, a very intelligent critic whose opaque, self-conscious novels are the sort of fiction...