Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recent decisions of the Supreme Court condoning successive trials by a state and the Federal government have caused a distinct breach of opinion among the Harvard Law School Faculty. Critics have charged that the decisions amount to legalization of double jeopardy...
Roger D. Fisher, an instructor in Law who has been personally involved in the decisions, sharply disagrees with the court's majority opinion, while Professors Mark de Wolfe Howe, Alfred E. Sutherland, and Paul A. Freund have stood firm in its defense. The split concerns both the philosophical implications and the practical results of the decision...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. An English widow sentenced under the law of diminishing returns to social work, the company of Angry Young Men, and bohemian...
...obvious anxiety to persuade his listeners soon won their support. The Cuban leader's frequently disarming unfamiliarity with English made him turn occasionally to an interpreter, and once he even drew help from a member of the audience. Dean Bundy, who introduced the speaker on behalf of the Law School forum and the University, seemed rather out of place as he shared the elevated platform with the Latin revolutionary and his bearded attendants...
Running the business are a respectable-looking couple fond of saying, "The Diet puts forth a law which claims to protect you girls, but they lie. It's we owners who are really protecting you. Without us you would starve. We're social workers. So work hard. And please don't become too haggard. You're for sale...