Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beacon Hill and Cambridge Establishment is reminiscent of James Michael Curley's durable appeal to Bostonians of another generation. And the notion that Kennedy men cannot lose in cod country is illusory: Mayor John Collins, who is retiring after two terms, originally beat a Kennedy endorsee. Both Lawyer Hicks, 48, and Lawyer White, 37, are Irish Catholics, but Mrs. Hicks is the daughter of Judge William Day, whose memorial is a boulevard in the Irish quarter of South Boston, and her address allows her to warble Southie's My Home Town with fidelity. White lives in the Beacon...
...with loveless abandon. Massachusetts' Edward Brooke and Baker bounced back for the G.O.P. against Walter Mondale (Minn.) and Joseph Tydings (Md.), but Democrats Ernest Hollings (S.C.) and William Spong (Va.) swept through top-seeded Jack Javits and Peter Dominick (Colo.) to take the title. Moaned Javits: "As a lawyer, I'm dismayed that Republicans couldn't win when we brought our case to court...
There is something special about the mind of a good lawyer-he does not think as others do. He will not accept easy generalizations nor climb quickly to a conclusion. He prefers, like a mountaineer intent upon a peak, to take the more careful, circuitous route so that he can be surer of his ground. He loves the facts, detests disarray and imprecision, and spends his working hours trying to define life within a framework of the law. He is not born this way; it takes a law school to turn the necessary bent of mind. And for thousands...
There are studies, to which I have already referred, of the sociology of the profession: who becomes a lawyer, and what sort of lawyer, and what does this reflect in family backing, undergraduate experience, and law school itself. But the main business of the practicing lawyer is not being touched in terms of his interaciton with corporate or governmental clients whom he helps to make decisions which have rather little to do with formal legal matters, and a fair amount to do with the fact that he is a privileged and trusted, quick and resourceful, semi-outsider...
...have we learned what lawyers bring to their careers outside the law: as college presidents and government officials, publishers and movie magnates, presidents of big corporations and founding fathers of the Peace Corps. We know not much more than Tocqueville had already noticed about the role of the lawyer in America, or what this presently means for our combativeness and cooperativeness, suspiciousness and trust, dependency and anarchy. What sociologists and political scientists have written about law and social control has seemed to me thin stuff. Yet it should be evident from what I have said that the law does offer...