Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointing Supreme Court Justices for political reasons is dubious business. Teddy Roosevelt thought he had a dutiful trustbuster in Holmes. Then Holmes handed down his first important dissent in favor of a big corporation, inciting T. R. to snarl that the new Justice had less backbone than a banana. The early fruits of Black's appointment were equally bitter. Choleric ex-NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson denounced him as "a born witch burner -narrow, prejudiced, class-conscious." Not only did the New York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that...
...Catholic committed to reform and renewal, I would like to say that we do not really want to "dissent from the Pope." Our devotion to truth is complete -so complete that we reject scholastic formulations that are unintelligible to the modern mind. But we accept mystery as unavoidable in any attempt to understand the workings of the infinite God. We are not asking for a more liberal church, meaning an easier church; we know that all true Christianity must be difficult, for all Christians are called to carry the Cross after our Master. We do not want to change...
...liberal" and a "utopian pilgrim," Roche makes a convincing case that no other Justice of the high court in recent times has so consistently championed civil liberties. During World War II, especially, when every other Justice forgot about civil liberties for the duration, Murphy never wavered, and his lone dissent from the decision to incarcerate the California Nisei was a model of both courage and good law. Along with its pragmatists, Roche concludes, the U.S. needs a sprinkling of such Utopians as Murphy...
...school (Eastern prep division) which he has cast on other U.S. institutions-marriage and the law (By Love Possessed), the military establishment (Guard of Honor), the clergy (Men and Brethren), and medicine (The Last Adam). In the past, the animator has been an individual who, by partial dissent, has lifted the various strands of a society into a tension which made them as visible as struts in a Dymaxion dome...
...recent weeks the Legislature passed with a minimum of dissent five other bills observers believe will be used in the harassment of civil rights workers this summer. The bills...