Word: filibusterer
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"English [studies]." sniffed one history don, "chatter about Shelley." George Saintsbury, who died in 1933, is an early example of the disease of scholarship. "A journalist transformed in middle age into the most venerable of professors," he became for generations of students the "supreme exponent of English lit." He was...
The U.S. Supreme Court is generally thought of as a serene haven. For Abe Fortas, that view has been obscured by some ominous clouds. When Lyndon Johnson nominated his old friend and adviser to the high court in 1965, witnesses turned the Senate confirmation hearing into a denunciation of Fortas...
They were still heavily outgunned in shares and assigned proxies, 72 million to 308 million. But, as one insurgent shouted, "I have been in India and I know the meaning of passive resistance. We will stay here ten days if necessary." A filibuster was on. Every now and then, somebody...
Quick Swoop. He hired Italian-born Pietro Maria Bardi as his artistic guide and installed him also as director of the Sao Paulo Art Museum-then a museum in name only, except in Chatô's imagination. As chief of some 30-odd newspapers, 19 magazines, 22 radio and...
The week began with a slapstick squabble over a bill to waive the requirement that radio and television grant equal time to all candidates. The waiver would have cleared the way for presidential debates among the major candidates-something that Hubert Humphrey wants and Richard Nixon, as the man with...