Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. A great jurist's informal recollections make for a lively, teasing, stimulating source of Americana...
...jurist, Frankfurter offers a refreshing critique of pure reason: "You damned sociologists, you historians who want to get it all nice and fine on paper, you haven't learned how much in this world is determined by non-syllogistic reasoning." On the subject of religion, he is gently detached. He recalls how as a young man, in the midst of a Yom Kippur service, he looked around as pious Jews were "beating their breasts with intensity of feeling and anguishing sincerity," and he decided that his presence among them was "a kind of desecration" since their creed no longer...
...country's most respected old Boers who broke the façade of Nationalist unity. Henry Allan Fagan, 70, until last year chief justice of the Union's Supreme Court, is both the country's most eminent jurist and its best-loved Afrikaans author; his novels and verse are found in practically every veld farmhouse. In a book published early this month, called Our Responsibility, Fagan pronounced Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's rigid apartheid "hopelessly impractical," and pointed out that the government has found it "impossible" to carry through "the mass withdrawal of [ black] labor from...