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...extraordinary faith in reason," Freund said, "some might say a pathetic faith in reason." But Brandeis was not sentimental, Freund said, adding, "He could be quite tough-minded...
Brandeis was fond of working early in the morning, Freund said, and he told of one clerk who, after working all night on a legal memo, slipped it under the door of Brandeis's apartment and felt Brandeis receive it. Brandeis was 75 at the time...
...Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, constitutional lawyer, and legal historian last night offered 20 people at a Leverett House American Studies Table anecdotal descriptions of the Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Felix Frankfurter and Louis D. Brandeis...
...Freund portrayed Holmes as a "skeptical" and "pragmatic" person who nevertheless tolerated the flaws he saw in the law-making process. Holmes was "pre-Existential," Freund said, in his conception of living as "not belief in a cause but giving one's self to a cause which one only dimly perceives...
...Freund then spoke of Brandeis, for whom he clerked after graduating from the Law School in 1932. Brandeis was a "moralist," Freund said, who "wrote opinions not to pierce the mind, but to instruct and overwhelm" with their weight...