Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lovin' people. And when we get home today, we're goin' to walk for Morton, we're goin' to talk for Morton, we're goin' to vote for Morton." Thruston Morton spread wide his arms, and his deep voice rang through the courtroom. "It wasn't necessary for President Kennedy to come twice to Kentucky to explain that I'm a Republican," he cried. "Everyone in Kentucky knows I'm a Republican." The crowd loved it: this was Republican country, which went 90% for Nixon...
...rises to reply-and that reply, despite its cool, deliberate cadence is whiplash in its bitterness against Dilworth. "We have got graft and corruption." he charges. "We have got it in Philadelphia, and we know what has not been done about it ... He cries in front of the courtroom and on television to try and stop any kind of investigation . . . This crown prince of failure . . . who whined and cried and fought tooth and nail to protect the grafters and corrupters...
...would be aroused by reading the Mechanics' Lien Acts. Justice Bok was also a novelist and a sailor. In the best sense of the rapidly blurring word amateur (one who does something, perhaps very well, solely for his own pleasure), the judge wrote two well-received novels about courtroom life and made two west-to-east crossings of the Atlantic as skipper of his own 42-ft. ketch...
...face encounter between Barnett and Meredith. A few days earlier, Barnett had blocked Meredith's path when he attempted to register at the University of Mississippi campus at Oxford (TIME, Sept. 28). In the interval between the two confrontations, impor tant events took place in the New Orleans courtroom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Faced with contempt charges, the state college board capitulated and promised to register Meredith. To keep Barnett from interfering again, the court issued a sweeping order enjoining him, plus a list of lesser state officials, from arresting, prosecuting, injuring, harassing...
...Affair, faithfully adapted by Ronald Millar from the novel by C.P. Snow, is set in the leather-chaired somnolence of a common room at Cambridge, and makes it crackle with the charges and countercharges of a courtroom trial. Dramatically, the play accumulates tension without generating passion. But for the theatergoer who is willing to forgo emotional nourishment, it provides a stimulating mental feast...