Word: earle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Abe Fortas' scandal-clouded resignation from the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Earl Warren, members of Congress and other critics called for a tightening of judicial ethics in order to eliminate ambiguities surrounding a judge's conduct of office. Last week a 14-man special committee of the American Bar Association completed a three-year study of the A.B.A.'s half-century-old code of ethics...
...early part of Malcolm's life-his boyhood in Lansing, Mich., his youth in Harlem pushing and pimping, his seven years in prison-is told in excellent, highly evocative stock footage, accompanied by passages from Malcolm's autobiography quietly and effectively read by James Earl Jones...
...illustrate what he meant, Professor Earl Cheit leaned down, swabbed his index finger across the floor under his chair and then held up the evidence. His finger was black. The floor was filthy because it had not been swept; it had not been swept because maintenance funds were inadequate; the maintenance funds were inadequate because the huge and prestigious University of California (nine campuses, $1 billion annual budget) has for the past four years been involved in what Berkeley Economist Cheit calls a "cost-income squeeze" that is prototypical of problems facing other large U.S. educational institutions...
...KIND OF life into which Malcolm was born is depicted by film-library footage of Southern plantations and Ku Klux Klan meetings while the narrator, James Earl Jones, repeats the first paragraph from Malcolm's autobiography...
...eating it as she watches the passersby from her porch, quietly slipping out by the back way after she has dressed up to go out and enjoy life, gingerly sipping a seven-and-seven in the nightclub, she is endearing without being bathetic, absurd without being ridiculous. When Earl Tibbits prances around the school bus calling "Pussycat! Oh pussycat!" and suddenly Ruby comes bounding around the corner, enormous in a big pink dress, Earl looks like more of a fool than does Ruby, because the film has made us appreciate in her qualities which Earl...