Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church." But last week the American Civil Liberties Union was yelling foul. The spirit of the Constitution had been violated, said A.C.L.U.'s Northern California Director Ernest Besig, and he called upon the writings of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson for proof: "No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess, by word or act, their faith therein." The San Francisco Chronicle also held Eyman out of line, thought another judge might force a defendant...
...wrote Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick of the Richmond News-Leader, once one of Dixie's hottest massive-resistance defenders, after last week's primary races for the 140 state legislature seats (132 Democratic). Like most politicians, Editor "Kilpo" read the results as a considerable victory for Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and his moderate school program. Politicians also saw in the results a personal comedown for the segregationist patriarch of state Democrats, U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...dining rooms (two public, three private). Fifteen trees of different and exotic species ranging up to 18 feet tall wave in the breeze, and $50,000 worth of foliage, from cheese plants to Ficus trees, crowd the Mies chairs and Johnson tables. The walls are covered with an original Jackson Pollock spatter painting called Blue Poles, three surrealistic tapestries by Joan Miró, a stage curtain painted by Picasso...
...they be recognized? In a joint study, Professors Getzels and Philip W. Jackson traced the traits of "creative" high school students by comparing their likes and dislikes with those of "high-IQ" students. The creative valued humor first; their opposite numbers ranked "character" first and humor last. What supposedly governs adult success, the researchers decided, is what high-IQ adolescents most value. But creative kids enjoy "the risk and uncertainty of the unknown . . . tend to diverge from stereotyped meanings, to perceive personal success by unconventional standards, to seek out careers that do not conform to what is expected of them...
Sacred Mission. The central fact of Demara's life, according to Biographer Crichton, may be that he is a status sucker. He was eleven years old when his father, who owned movie houses in Lawrence, Mass., abruptly went broke. Kicked out of their mansion on Jackson Street, the Demaras landed in a shabby old carriage house on the wrong side of the gloomy old mill town. Fred hated poverty, with its stiff work boots and corduroy knickers, and he refused to face it. Every chance he got he sneaked back to the old house, sat in the attic...