Word: gideon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film begins. We are lost in the woods of Vermont, that's where, and so are those two schloonks on the screen. One is called Jack (Peter H. Beard) and the other Leo (Marty Greenbaum), and they are both in love with Vera. But Vera has just married Gideon and the boys are terribly upset. How could she! How could she be so cruel to two passionate admirers who have seen her at least once a year for the last seven years...
...ignored the poetic justice rendered to Justices Black and Douglas when you cited the Betts and Gideon cases in your new Law section [Oct. 18]. These justices dissented in Betts in 1942 and were vindicated in Gideon...
...Gideon shows that the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment now appears to compel the states to apply the guarantees of the Constitution's Bill of Rights in toto. Justice Harlan alone expressed serious reservations regarding the legality and wisdom of this principle...
...tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Compared to Justice's rigorous goading of the individual conscience, such religiously oriented plays as Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Greene's The Potting Shed, MacLeish's J.B. and Chayevsky's Gideon seem like Communion services for the morally complacent...
...what of Clarence Gideon himself? He was retried in a state court, acquitted and freed. He is now living in Gainesville, Fla., lawfully employed as an electrician...