Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflamed today if they had been seized upon in the '50s. The Eisenhower Administration's record on civil rights was, to say the least, undistinguished. "I have very little faith," he would say in the tones of Ecclesiastes that the next decade would find unacceptable, "in the ability of law to change the human heart or eliminate prejudice." Much as Eisenhower's Abilene background strengthened him for the great tests of war, it did little to help him understand the urban society he governed. In the era of Keynesian economics, his obsession with a balanced budget seemed archaic. In those...
Arcane Experiments. The candles swayed and changed color. Really? Sirhan insisted that it was no trick of imagination, reported Dr. Bernard L. Diamond. The noted psychoanalyst, who combines professorships in law, psychiatry and criminology at the University of California at Berkeley, was the star witness for Sirhan's defense. His testimony buttressed the diagnoses of five other experts that Sirhan was afflicted with paranoia and schizophrenia. Diamond reconnoitered the darkening recesses of the assassin's mind. One key to the killing, Diamond insisted, must be found in Sirhan's arcane experiments with the mirror. It was during...
...another promotion for merit, percussive sublimation has the added benefit of justifying the executive who promoted the man to his level of incompetence in the first place. Both this principle and the lateral arabesque point up an inadequacy in C. Northcote Parkinson's well-known law. Work not only expands to fit the time allotted but, says Author Peter, "it can expand far beyond that...
...three years, Yale Law Professor Steven Duke has been working to correct what he calls "one of the most inexcusable, grotesque perversions of justice in the history of the federal criminal process." Without any compensation, Duke has devoted as many as 80 hours a week trying to reverse the narcotics conviction of a Connecticut hairdresser named James Miller. In 1964 Attorney General Robert Kennedy called Miller one of the main figures in the nation's largest narcotics smuggling ring, but Duke is convinced that Miller was the victim of a grievous error on the part of the Government...
...Timbrook: Perhaps I should have studied law instead of literature...