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...success of decisions and legislation he vehemently derided when they were rendered. It's not unfair to ask of a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court where he was when it counted, when the great issues of his time were being debated and decided. What claims might Justice Bork dismiss today whose validity and utility will seem painfully clear tomorrow...
Access to the courts. As an appeals judge, Bork also took a narrow view of the right of plaintiffs to bring their cases before the court. Accordingly, he voted to dismiss suits brought by veterans, the homeless, the handicapped and consumer groups. Opponents point out that he has rarely ruled this way against business plaintiffs. In one widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that...
...confronts young contestants with invidious English expressions that have infiltrated common parlance and invites them to concoct substitutes in their own language. Some of the prizewinning neologisms: for milkshake, mouslait (literally, milk foam); for hot dog, saucipain (sausage bread); for fast- food outlet, restapouce (quick-bite restaurant). Outsiders often dismiss such exercises as evidence of France's obsession with maintaining the purity of its beloved tongue, especially against the encroachments of Franglais. But lately the guardians of the linguistic heritage of Voltaire and Racine have been voicing a more serious concern: whether French might cease to be an international language...
...writes, "was about manners and the value of hard work, involving how to get a job, how to keep a job, how to dress for a job interview, how to deal with a prospective employer." But with work scarce and cocaine permeating the ghetto, young blacks now tend to dismiss old heads as old fogies preaching a message as irrelevant as antidrug lectures...
...Though it is, of course, impossible, Furguson seems to have anticipated the academization of knowledge and art in our time...[like an] academic social science that can, as it recently did at Harvard University, explicitly dismiss scholarship that engages deeply felt issues in the common life in the public and accessible language of that life...