Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flym acts as a bridge between his radical friends and the legal establishment. Indeed, he is often the only communications link between the two. He tries hard to emphasize, however, that Flym the lawyer is dominant over Flym the political idealist: "I'm craftsman," he says. "What I'm interested in, in these cases, is more the legal issues than the political questions. But the political questions often raise fundamental legal issues." And a lawyer's pragmatism colors the idealist's view of a controversy: "While there's a lot of heat generated, it's a matter of starting...
...picture. It distorts reality by focusing on a small corner. It therefore works badly in these political-legal cases because it doesn't permit taking into account the motivations of the actors in the drama." But once again, Flym the political idealist clashes with Flym the hard-nosed lawyer. "I guess it would be difficult to design a legal process that would not--as a rule--tend to limit the issues. But if you need to have an institution like the criminal process--and I think you do--you must decide what kind...
...avert repetitions of the crisis in New Mexico, Congress is currently considering modifications in the Medicaid rules. New Mexico's Senator Clinton P. Anderson, widely hailed as "the father of Medicare" for his legislative labors in its behalf, has introduced a bill that would allow hard-pressed states to reduce their commitments under the program without risking expulsion. That would certainly prove a great boon to many states. What it would do to the medically indigent remains to be seen...
...allies in capturing and celebrating the delightful, eccentric and always individual surfaces of life. Yet his feeling at times encompasses an almost mystic vision of beatitude. "This is ecstasy," he once wrote about standing alone in green woods among rare butterflies. "Behind the ecstasy is something else which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern?to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal...
...temptation is therefore considerable for women to work less hard than men of similar age and ability, and to accept graciously the admiration offered for trying. This forces the Radcliffe Institute and women in general to operate with a level of self-criticism not ordinarily required of men. Ruth Hubbard (Mrs. George Wald) Research Associate and Lecturer in Biology...