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Warren and Frankfurter had their first notable collision in public one day in 1957, when Frankfurter dared to interrupt Warren and reword some convoluted questions that the Chief Justice was putting to a lawyer. Warren flushed, began to shout: "Let him answer my question! He is confused enough as it is." Frankfurter grew pale behind his eyeglasses and cut back, "Confused by Justice Frankfurter, I presume." In 1958, they were at it again: Warren lashed Frankfurter, charging that one of his dissents made the court out to be "savage." And just six weeks ago the Chief Justice publicly criticized Frankfurter...
...Russians do not interrupt this communion over the airways. Freed has not a sure answer. "No doubt they feel they have nothing to fear from religious propaganda," he says. "But beyond the materialist dimension there are still men's hearts and souls. No country can decree these out of existence...
...harmless and . If enough people take seriously, the result an influx of admissions every bit as dull and as the colleges the author . (On the encouraging it should be added picture of a consciously Birmingham on the book could dispel most thoughts The Ivy League has done nothing to interrupt the flow of very bad books about American colleges...
...inside one of the seminary's U-shaped, granite buildings, the energetic theologian turned to the question of church and state, and the discussion reached back to Thomas Aquinas and back to the transitional thought of 16th century St. Robert Bellarmine.* At one point. Father Murray had to interrupt the interview for his afternoon lecture to some 200 young seminarians. Mrs. Arno, who earlier in the day had mistakenly entered a cloistered area of the tree-lined campus, was not allowed to attend the class; Auchincloss went, admitted to his host that he had some difficulty keeping awake during...
...there comes a time when every committee must interrupt the harmless progress of its research with a report, and here the White House kettle once again obscures the windows with a heavy cloud of steam. The recommendations of the Draper report, many of which were very sound, were apparently never considered, for there is no reflection of them in the President's foreign aid programs. Everybody knows what happened to the Gaither Report; it was locked away for fear, in Herblock's words, that people who read it might "die of happiness." Vice-President Nixon's report, a frankly partisan...