Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesser-known worlds of a lesser-known playwright, Goat Island is a full-grown tragedy about a woman's search for moral certainty. Unlike other Betti plays, it manages not to get obsessed with the question of justice for its own sake. Betti was both a lawyer and a judge, but in Goat Island he uses the legal metaphor only as a structural device, a means of pushing the play's heroine toward her realization...
Electronic Empire. Though Bailey was top man in his class at B.U. ('60), he graduated without honors because he refused to join the Law Review. Instead, he spent 60 hours a week running his own detective agency, which handled 2,000 cases for criminal lawyers while teaching Bailey his key skill-indefatigable investigation. After law school, Bailey attended Chicago's Keeler Polygraph Institute, then helped an elderly Boston lawyer defend an accused wife killer who had flunked a lie-detector test. Bailey was hired merely to cross-examine the prosecution polygrapher. But during the trial, his boss...
...Annette Vaillant. 230 pages. New York Graphic Society. $27.50. A cheerful, gossipy book embellished with 53 color plates, 92 black-and-white photographs and 79 line drawings by Pierre Bonnard, a painter who looked like a postal clerk on the point of tears. Bonnard was, in fact, a failed lawyer who fell in with artists in Paris, and never recovered until he died at 79. His range was nearly as wide as his lifespan: Paris posters resembling those of Toulouse-Lautrec, portraits of midinettes with the geisha gestures of Hiroshige figures, pointillistic experiments with gossamer landscapes, indolent nudes...
...this court," he said. He argued that the teachers' oath penalizes any teacher who disobeys it but that a lawyer is only "charged" with perjury for breaking his oath...
...lawyer told the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts yesterday that the only possible interpretation of the Teacher Loyalty Oath is that it forbids treason or slaveholding...