Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unsympathetic courtroom, Rene Floriot, one of the best and most expensive of Parisian criminal lawyers, delivered a marathon defense oration that ended with "Mais non, all I am trying to say is that you cannot find a man guilty on this kind of evidence." Swiss newspapers fumed at French journalists who suggested that Jaccoud was being railroaded because he had blemished the reputation of conservative, Calvinist Geneva. Students angrily burned copies of Paris-Match on a city square...
...Broadway The Andersonville Trial. With overtones of Nuremberg, the play re-creates the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the camp for Union prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. Playwright Saul Levitt ultimately fails to search out the moral issue he raises; but the courtroom battle, theatrically charged by Director Jose Ferrer, makes a better-than-average evening of theater...
...Office. To prevent the new constitution from being arbitrarily and easily amended by an African parliamentary majority, he will require each amendment to gain a three-fourths majority in a nationwide referendum. Safeguarding a white minority is certainly a new experience to the U.S.'s No. 1 Negro courtroom lawyer, but Marshall says drily that he hopes to devise a constitution that will give the individual European and Asian in Kenya at least "the same rights as a Negro has in Indiana." And he adds: "After this experience, I'm going to understand our own problem...
...Andersonville Trial. Playwright Saul Levitt and Director Jose Ferrer recreate the war-criminal trial of the Confederate officer who ran the notorious Civil War prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although somewhat forced and ultimately unsatisfying, the moral battle in the courtroom has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...
...Andersonville Trial. Playwright Saul Levitt and Director José Ferrer recreate the post-Civil War trial of the Confederate officer who ran the notorious prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although somewhat forced and ultimately unsatisfying, the moral battle in the courtroom has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...