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...arguing for judicial passivism in the name of democracy is nothing new; scholars have done it for generations, raising their voices in particular in the aftermath of the liberal activist Court of Chief Justice Earl Warren--which provoked the wrath of conservatives by striking down legislation with regularity during the 1950s and 1960s. What makes Ely's approach unique is that he spotlights a small area in which he argues judges must exert their authority. As a result, he likes to call himself "a selective activist...
...interestingly, Cox has an answer for those who would call Ely's advocacy of judicial self-restraint a cover for conservatism. The former Watergate special prosecutor notes that Ely's idol is Earl Warren--to whom Democracy and Distrust is dedicated and that in lionizing the Warren Court. Ely is "defending the most activist Court we ever...
Throughout Umpire Luciano himself is the only recurrent character, though his pet peeve. Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver comes close. They didn't get along on the field where relations deteriorated to the point that the league gave Luciano a short vacation whenever his crew visited Baltimore. But he can't help bringing up Weaver again and again, almost offering him symbolically as the exception that proves the rule that everybody in the league likes him. Of all the ejections he handed out over 11 years. Luciano has to be proudest of the one he give. Weaver during the warm...
According to Dempster, Margaret's life thereafter was marked with irony and marred by men. Antony Armstrong-Jones appears as the villainous Earl of Snowdon, vulpine photographer and "failed architect." Though the couple's early years are, in Dempster's terse account, full of "sex, sex, sex," the earl is all too soon observed spending more time in boudoirs than in darkrooms. When the lonely princess and mother of two takes up with an eligible aristocrat, Roddy Llewellyn, the earl appears on television. There, playing the crocodile cuckold, he tearfully begs indulgence for Princess Margaret...
...glamour kept coming after that, but so did the trouble. There were technical foulups: Ed Asner and Elizabeth Taylor were momentarily trapped in the folds of a falling curtain, like big game in a tree trap. The pace slowed: "I can't read my monitor," James Earl Jones rumbled like an Old Testament prophet rebuking his flock. Most of all, the pretension showed: birthday candles were lit on a cake that looked like the Tower of Babel, as discomfited luminaries dished up decades of encapsulated world history in which the Actors' Fund got featured billing ("A Russian named...