Word: landmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest magnet for visitors is L.B.J.'s elaborately cosmeticized "Boyhood Home," a Texas Historical Landmark, which after three years of operation greeted its 200,000th visitor last summer. The modest white frame house is something more than "restored." All the rooms are furnished as parlors, stuffed with turn-of-the-century furniture and L.B.J. memorabilia. More rustic, but open to the public only when the President is away, is a rebuilt "birthplace" cabin on the edge of the ranch itself...
...newer generation of museumgoers. This generation grew up looking at abstract expressionism, and although it has no difficulty in accepting Kline's premises, it has grown vastly more critical of his output. O.K., the newcomers say, strolling from picture to picture, we all know he was a landmark, a titan, a pioneer. But did he paint good abstractions or bad ones...
...Southern school system -- whose violent convulsions marked the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in 1954 -- is bracing for a new showdown. And although Northerners find it hard to understand, this showdown will be far more important than any that have gone before. More than the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision or the spotty efforts to wipe out segregated schools that followed, the 1968 fight to give black children a decent education will determine the Negro's future in the South...
Ironically, Smith's fundamental argument-that he was not accorded his constitutional rights to counsel and to silence-would today suffice to get any other suspect a new trial. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions on Escobedo and Miranda deal favorably with situations like Smith's. But those landmark decisions were written since Smith's trial eleven years ago, and are not retroactive. His petition to the Supreme Court to vacate his conviction is pending; he has a stay of execution until that decision is made...
...obscenity case, what is often at issue is not the merits or demerits of the film, but the manner in which it was seized, the legality of the prior court action, and the definition of obscenity in the individual situation. Definitions have been vague ever since the landmark Roth decision of 1957, eight years before Fortas was appointed an Associate Justice. That decision established several broad criteria of tolerance, all of which have created problems of interpretation...