Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Connally, the disenchanted counselor, was there, back in the fold ("He nodded wisely a couple of times," reported one participant), and so was the disheartened George Shultz, ready to trudge on. The ripples from such meetings can in the long run change the Government and the nation. But is it too little and too late? Richard Nixon's Government is for now an ocean of despair...
...Hollywood, Fla. "Surely, it does not require a close reading of the code [to discover] that breaking and entering is wrong, that perjury is wrong, and that encouraging it is wrong." Part of the problem lies in the fact that on the one hand a lawyer as a counselor is expected to bring a detached and professional point of view to a case, and that on the other the lawyer as advocate is expected to represent his client's interest and vigorously advance it. It is true that flamboyant trial lawyers often use every legal means at their command...
...simultaneously too precise and not precise enough. But its very imperfection is why it has need of lawyers constant ly to nurture its growth and to correct its sometimes unjust ways. Legal groups may need to devise new guidelines that somehow strike a better balance between the roles of counselor and advocate. But the chief difficulty is find ing and restoring to the profession its sense of duty to the continuing experiment of law. Some slight satisfaction can be salvaged from the current debacle if it helps restore to lawyers a renewed sensitivity to that most necessary Obligation...
Dean said the list was compiled in mid-1971 by the office of Charles W. Colson, then a special White House counselor. Dean also released a list of what he said were the Administration's top 20 "political enemies." No Harvard officials were on this list...
David Rounds brings plenty of verve to the role of Lucio, the quick-witted, cynical, slanderous libertine who bridges the gap between the aristocracy and the rabble. Wyman Pendleton imbues the aging counselor Escalus with warmth. And Alvah Stanley, with axe, rope and chains, is properly intimidating as the executioner Abhorson--a unique name that Shakespeare fashioned, in the manner of the pivot-word so common in Japanese poetry, by fusing 'abhor' and 'whoreson...