Word: hugo
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Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black once wrote that "free press and fair trial are two of the most cherished policies in our civilization, and it would be a trying task to choose between them." That choice need not be made if both law officials and journalists work at sensible accommodations. Most of the prejudicial information leaked to the press before a trial comes from police officers, prosecutors, wardens, lawyers and even judges themselves. In 1966 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Paul Reardon's landmark study on pre-trial publicity recommended a series of guidelines for lawyers and law officers...
...novelist is not shy about invoking the names of such famous poetic asses (as he sees them) as Rimbaud, Keats, Shelley and Victor Hugo. In wicked parody of their legends, he kills Jaromil off at 20. The young poet attends a party one cold night and insults another writer, who locks him out of the apartment on a balcony. Jaromil pridefully refuses to beg to be let back in, catches pneumonia and dies of asininity...
...VICTOR HUGO once proclaimed that "there is nothing so powerful in all the world as an idea whose time has come." For countless American youth and those among the leftist intelligentsia who had labored for five years as the conscience of a nation, the triumph of an idea could not have seemed closer than when Lyndon B. Johnson told a stunned, nationwide television audience on April Fool's day, 1968, that he would neither seek nor accept nomination for another presidential term...
...John Teal at the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution. "Everybody is trampling over everybody else to stake a claim in the oceans." That signals an end to a view that has prevailed for 350 years: the fundamental freedom of the seas. It was first stitched into international law by Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist who wrote in 1609 that the ocean "is common to all, because it is so limitless that it cannot become the possession of anyone." The seas, he concluded, "can be neither seized nor enclosed...
...Fletcher, from the Roxbury-based United Community Construction Workers, Hugo Morales, from the United Farm Worker's (UFW) Support Committee, and Jean-Calude Martino, from the Haitian Action Committee echoed Jharad's call for a unified working class movement...