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...prodigious orchestral and vocal writing and his intuitive knack for fantasy. The first work, Dreams of Liu-tung, depicts the adventures of a frivolous student who is converted to Taoism when a magician conjures up four dreams that chillingly depict his fate. Butterfly Widow is a comedy about a high-court functionary, Chan-tse, who dreams each night that he is a beautiful giant butterfly. A philosopher tells Chan-tse that he was actually a butterfly in his former life and was probably a lot happier without the nagging of his current wife. Chan-tse pretends to be dead...
Equally combustible is a Maryland high-court ruling that voided state grants for nonreligious facilities at three religious colleges. The court saw in the practice an unconstitutional "establishment of religion," thus casting grave doubt on similar federal support for church colleges and parochial schools. Even more combustible is Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Haire's challenge of tax exemption for churches, which the Maryland court unanimously rejected...
...station toward his becoming the Supreme Court's first Negro Justice. But even if he goes no farther, Marshall's position already makes him what is often called the Supreme Court's "tenth member." Since the Government is a party in more than half the court's cases, and the Solicitor General is the Government's chief appellate lawyer, the court sees, hears and heeds him more than any other man Although he is paid only $28,500 a year as the Justice Department's third high est official (behind the Attorney General...
...bankroll to $1,500,000, which is still austere for an organization that last year (aided by 102 cooperating lawyers) defended 10,487 civil rights demonstrators, fought 168 separate groups of legal actions in 15 states, and pushed 30 cases up to the Supreme Court. A single such high-court case costs as much as $50,000; in six months of defending 3,000 Birmingham demonstrators last year, the fund shelled...
Having reached the mandatory retirement age, Judge Leibowitz applied for an extension of his term. By tradition, approval should have been almost automatic. So much about high-court New York judgeships is automatic that it is a tradition around the courthouse that they all but offer a lifetime job. Election to one 14-year term carries a virtual promise of endorsement by both political parties should the judge decide to run again...