Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paean. Still, his personality maintains a subtle ambiguity. When his Jewish secretary visits him in his cell, he is Goldman/Dorff, switching characters with almost imperceptible changes in diction, accent, gesture. Back in the courtroom, he is Dorff again, exhorting the court -and the audience-with a great emotional paean to Hitler. "People...
...Trial Scene -- which Kahn has staged admirably, and which is marred chiefly by a mechanical delivery on Portia's part that extends even to the "quality of mercy" speech. Carnovsky's playing throughout this scene is a marvel. Here he lets himself lose control twice and shatters courtroom decorum by pounding on the judge's bench as though he were Khruschchev banging his shoe in the United Nations assembly. His modulation from this to his final "I am content" is masterly. When he makes his final exit, he stumbles on the stairs, then goes on -- defeated, but not crushed. This...
Judge Leon Bazile looked down at Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter Loving as they stood before him in 1959 in the Caroline County, Va. courtroom. "Almighty God," he intoned, "created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." With that, Judge Bazile sentenced the newlywed Lovings to one year in jail. Their crime: Mildred is part Negro, part Indian, and Richard is white...
...Nora Higgins, 57, housewife and self-described clairvoyant from Branscomb, Calif., who maintains that the soul has no physical substance but consists of a hazy, tinted form resembling that of the body. At the hearing, she insisted that she had detected Kidd's soul in the courtroom, "pacing up and down with his hands behind his back, shaking his head at the proceedings...
...Federal Government has already got him for 15. So when Texas socked Billie Sol Estes in 1962 with eight extra years for his cunning way with nonexistent fertilizer tanks, Billie took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, won a retrial on the ground that TV cameras in the courtroom had prejudiced the trial. Last week, tanned and trimmer by 50 Ibs. after two years in federal prisons at Leavenworth and Sandstone, Minn., Billie Sol, 42, returned to the dusty courthouse in Tyler, Texas, and found that the state was willing to ease up on him. In a 45-minute...