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...also charge sloppy legal draftsmanship in many decisions that have not so much outraged as confused. The Justices, notes Yale Scholar Alexander Bickel, have yet to come up with a workable definition of obscenity. The decisions curbing police abuses have been almost as murky, says Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland. "After Escobedo," he quips, "you need Miranda, and after Miranda, we will need maybe twelve more decisions...
...University of California praises his writing style, which "makes study a pleasure instead of a chore." One of Gilmore's students calls him "the most popular classroom professor at the law school"; another thinks that he has "the most brilliant mind." Friend and Fellow Faculty Member Philip Kurland concludes expansively: "In any generation, there are three or four teachers who are the law teachers of their time, and in this generation one of those is Grant Gilmore...
Only 25%. After 19 years at Yale and many visiting professorships, Gilmore yielded to the blandishments of Chicago. "We were after him for ten years," says Colleague Kurland. Gilmore sees to it that teaching and writing stay on opposite sides of the law-school coin. "For me, the difference between teaching and writing is the difference between playing music and composing it. I think I'd go to seed in six months without teaching...
...Says Kurland: "There is a revelation of problems an ordinary student doesn't know exist. Grant is a master of the Socratic method, superb in dialogue." He characteristically makes a point by bashing down his glasses so hard that they sometimes break. There is some disagreement about his low, deep voice; Kurland says it has the "sort of cadence and vibrancy of a Welsh poet." Students call Gilmore "the Grunt" because of his habit of harrumphing, and talking into his mustache. One wisecracks that "it's been claimed that he only educates 25% of his students; the rest...
...corpsman endured these hardships for little more than a week. Then back he went to overeating. He gained a pound a day for two months and retreated to the sanctuary of adiposity, where less was expected of him and he no longer felt inadequate. In other cases, said Dr. Kurland, drastic reducing has also led to depression rather than emotional relief. For many of the extremely obese, he suggested, their very weight is a source of emotional stability...