Word: greenbergs
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What the C.I.J. fears, explains Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is the molding of a judiciary with "a monolithic right-wing ideology." It is true that Reagan has made it clear that he would appoint strict constructionists who believe in judicial restraint. But such philosophical criteria are nothing new. Presidents have tried to pick judges who read the Constitution their way since George Washington, who insisted on Federalists for his Supreme Court. President Carter, if reelected, would be no exception. Former Attorney General Griffin Bell says Carter would opt for Supreme Court candidates...
Everyone remembers 1968, and most of over-40 Detroit remembers, at least vaguely, Hank Greenberg, Schoolboy Rowe and the class of '45. And everybody has heard Sparky Anderson's too-loud propaganda about the 90 wins in 1980 and the division title in '81. But the real action is now, as the Tigers finish out another long summer at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull...
...strumming the guitar as a boy in Brooklyn. Later, while studying musicology at N.Y.U., he met Kay, a pianist whose landlord had forbidden her to practice in her apartment. She took up the recorder as a consolation, and Michael experimented with accompanying her on the lute. Inspired by Noah Greenberg's pioneering New York Pro Musica, they "roped in a few friends," and the Waverly Consort-named for Waverly Place, a street that runs past the N.Y.U. campus-was born...
...reader may agree wholeheartedly with such statements and still have an uneasy feeling. Greenberg displays little of the sympathy she expended on the mentally ill in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) and on the deaf in In This Sign (1972). People in these stories are self-maimed, and get treated accordingly. The artistic regimen is ascetic. "Talmudic Law," one of her characters explains, "forbids the overdecorated letter, a letter for art's sake and not for the formation of legible words." Nothing is overdecorated here; Greenberg spends little time telling where her characters live or what...
What remains clearly legible throughout is Greenberg's complaint against contemporary society and what one character calls the "weekend-guest view of life." Aunt Bessie bobbing helplessly across her ceiling is a comic parable of the effects of freethinking, except that the author is not laughing. Her stony integrity often redeems these stories from irritating knuckle-rapping. They engage the mind, unsettle it and survive as disputatious reminders of first principles and last things. -Paul Gray