Word: contempts
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...back room curl up like quaking children in the middle of a nightmare. Everyone in Harry Hope's place needs booze to nourish his dream, but it is the dream itself, not alcohol, that keeps them alive. Hickey, underneath his salesman's brass and chatter, needs rage, contempt and anguish to galvanize the entire play...
...subpoenaed tapes, verified by Mississippi Senator John Stennis, was generally seen as an attempt to evade the courts' more demanding order. But for the public outcry, Nixon was prepared to cling to that plan, and had he done so, he almost certainly would have been declared in contempt of court by Federal Judge John J. Sirica and, as a result, impeached. In a sense, the public outrage may have helped save Nixon from himself in the tapes case...
Among the other five leftists to sign the statement were the Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, David McReynolds, a member of the War Resisters League, and David T. Dellinger who is currently on trial for contempt in the 1969 Chicago Eight case...
Despite the dismissal of Cox, Law Professors Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago and Gerald Gunther of Stanford both contend, the court of appeals can still cite Nixon for contempt. "The appellate court has already issued its order," said Kalven, "and it may take judicial notice of the President's defiance even without Cox." Other scholars, however, believe that the courts have no independent prosecutorial power; without a prosecutor, there is no adversary relationship. Cox could be appointed a counsel to the court or an agent for the grand jury that is still assigned to consider Watergate...
...passes along scholarship with finely tempered disdain. In an original bit of casting, Kingsfield is played by Veteran Theater and Film Producer John Houseman. It is a forbidding, superb performance, catching not only the coldness of such a man but the patrician crustiness that conceals deep and raging contempt...