Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puopolo died on Dec. 17, 1976, in Tufts-New England Medical Center. Easterling, Soares and Richard S. Allen were convicted of the murder in March 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year because the prosecution had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. The three defendants are black...
...Meredith, then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where she graduated tenth in her class ('49) and married the man who graduated No. 1, Seth Hufstedler. She practiced general civil law in Los Angeles until 1961, when Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown named her a Los Angeles County superior court judge. In 1966 he promoted her to the California Court of Appeal...
...years later, Lyndon Johnson appointed her to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She and her husband, who now serves as counsel to a state commission investigating the California Supreme Court, live in a modest, ranch-style house in Pasadena. Their only child, Steven, 26, is a medical student at the University of California at Irvine...
Still, Hufstedler is politically savvy enough not to close the door on a position she has long coveted: that of being the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before agreeing to become Secretary of Education, she extracted a promise from Carter that he would not preclude her from any future Supreme Court vacancy. For now, however, she is content to concentrate on education. To reporters, she insisted that her "lifelong interest" in education qualified her for the post. She admitted, however, that she does not "have any specific ideas right now about the Department of Education because I simply...
...pieces-a bathtub on a stand, dotted with bits of sticking plaster-was mistakenly used to cool beer during a party in the museum where it was stored. No damage was done to it, but the owner sued and was given $94,000 damages by a German court, a verdict happily greeted by Beuys as a victory over the "exploitative self-interest" of the beer drinkers. Plainly, something had happened to the avant-garde in the half-century since Marcel Duchamp suggested using a Rembrandt as an ironing board. Had it died of its own pomposity? If not, where...