Word: freeborn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea that individuals have rights that government should not infringe was an article of faith with "freeborn Englishmen" as far back as 1215, when a group of barons sat King John down to sign the Magna Carta. So there was considerable irony in the fact that an international court, born out of the Holocaust to prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press...
...menagerie of monsters and grotesques usually seen only in the DTs. For one scene, set in a brawling spaceport bar, the casting director went to a London firm called Uglies, Ltd. There he found actors to portray thugs assembled from all parts of the galaxy. Then Makeup Man Stuart Freeborn went to work, making the uglies uglier or turning them into nightmares of genetic engineering who resemble giant flies, cobras or things that have floated up from 20,000 leagues under...
...From the beginning of the Republic," House Speaker Nicholas Longworth once complained, "it has been the duty of every freeborn humorist to make jokes at us." He may have had in mind Mark Twain's crack that Congress is our only native American criminal class. But there have been times in recent years when the entire nation could have been indicted for contempt of Congress...