Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring before it the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826 at the Florida State Prison, Fortas, even as a private lawyer, was instrumental in shaping the decision that guaranteed any indigent defendant a court-appointed lawyer. Gideon was more than a case; it became an article of faith. As a member of the court, Fortas has supported other decisions that have radically broadened the rights of defendants. "We're not just dealing with the criminal and society," he once told an attorney who was arguing for the police point of view, "but the relation between the citizen...
...Lyndon Johnson, "the critical question that we face is whether we can, as one people, hold fast to our faith in each other and in this nation's purpose." There seemed to be something of a shortage of faith. Louis Harris took a survey after the assassination and reported that two out of three Americans believed there was something deeply wrong with their country; 53% agreed with the statement that "law enforcement has broken down and lawlessness has taken over...
Although party professionals-not for the first time-were counting him out of the presidential race, McCarthy, as always, relied upon his almost mystic and so far well-justified faith in the explosive unpredictability of this year's politics. Emerging from six days of seclusion in his Washington house following Robert Kennedy's assassination, the Minnesotan slipped into the White House for a 40-minute conference with the President, in midweek flew to New York to take up the race again...
Into this w.c. of an Eden slinks Vesta, an unvirginal Eve disguised as a woman's magazine editor. Vesta tempts Enderby into writing non-poems for her journal under the signature of Faith Fortitude, and before he can barricade that bathroom door, she has him out of his holy of holies and into an unholy marriage...
...Arkansas newspaperman who has fashioned a pop anti-western in the best tradition of Cat Ballou and the Ballad of Dingus Magee. For openers, his hero is a heroine: Mattie Ross, a sassy, 14-year-old Arkansan whose chief protective girdle is a dry Bible-belt faith, and who is out to avenge the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...