Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALK into Elijah Adlow's courtroom and you want to get out. The courtroom is a jail cell; its high flat walls move square around you, and the windows are slatted with iron. But unlike a jail cell, which offers some sanctuary, Adlow's courtroom is thoroughly menacing. You are intimidated by the judge, by the bailiffs with their thick chins and thin lips, by the chuckling old men who come to watch every day, and mostly by the walls that hold you inside--even if you are a free man, as I was Thursday, just a spectator...
...late-show watchers remember Spencer Tracy's bravura portrayal of Clarence Darrow and Fredric March's performance as William Jennings Bryan in the movie Inherit the Wind, a reenactment of the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial." That classic courtroom confrontation seemed to come from another era, a benighted past when a 24-year-old substitute biology teacher named John T. Scopes was actually indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee schoolroom. But that era was not so distant after...
...Freedom Party's Eldridge Cleaver can probably boast (if boast is the word) even more precarious futures. The general has lost his $50,000-a-year job as board chairman of a California electronics firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
...drugstore near the eastern end of Cambridge St. to vie for walk-on parts in the film, strolled past Simeone's for a glimpse of Tony Curtis slurping a plate of spaghetti, and gossiped endlessly about the trial of a self-confessed strangler--Albert DeSalvo--in an East Cambridge courtroom. But now that the completed film blares out on the screen, it's hard to feel other than slightly nauseated--or even ribaldly amused--by its pastiche of lurid suggestions and high school locker jokes, topped with a machete-wielding probe of the psyche of the strangler...
...prove that men who carry an extra male or Y chromosome in their body cells tend to be criminally violent. Yet, increasing evidence supports the theory that such men are overaggressive "supermales" inclined toward mayhem (TIME, May 3). This month attorneys in two widely separated cases made courtroom history by introducing the disputed concept in defense of two accused killers...