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PBH; Book Exposure Program; Holmes Hall Concert Series Secretary; Dormitory Committee, Quincy-Holmes Representative; Teacher-Aide Program.
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Magnificent Yankee, an award-winning adaptation of the Broadway play about the life of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife Fanny. With Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Rerun.
Veneers of Honey. For some of the press, Candy's soft, breathless Southern accent carried conviction. "She is remarkable for her poise, her wealth, her tenacious hold on the vestiges of a vanished youth and the bouncy, unquenchable optimism with which she faces an ordeal that will surely tarnish...
As Levinson implies, Frankfurter is not subject to either of these criticisms of Holmes. Frankfurter's social concern and activity was one of his most salient qualities. And he did not share Justice Holmes's skepticism. Indeed, he had a passionate, "almost childlike," belief in democracy. But, while this belief...
My primary argument with the article as a whole is its relative treatment of Holmes and Frankfurter. Holmes is attacked with vigor; but Frankfurter gets a half-sympathetic treatment. This is difficult to understand. However questionable Holmes's reasoning, the results were liberal: he wanted to uphold progressive laws. Moreover...