Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unpleasant Word. The American Bar Association sent three officials to pillory some more. They pointed to conspicuous gaps in Morrissey's background as lawyer and judge. Concluded Bernard Segal, former chairman of the A.B.A.'s federal judiciary committee: "We have not had any case in which those factors are so lacking as in the case of Judge Morrissey...
...Child. A stocky, ruddy-faced man of 57, Levine is a rarity in New York's weary school system. He is a lawyer, a Latin expert, a Talmudic scholar and a musician. Notwithstanding those interests, he gives tireless attention to teaching, even after 34 years in the profession. One of education's foremost functions, argues Levine, is "to build up the child's image of himself," and the foundation for that is to teach children to read. If they fail at reading, he says, they may fail at everything, and the child who cannot read "becomes...
Levine's notion that music and bodily movement could aid learning came from a curiosity about how people function in certain circumstances. "A good trial lawyer moves around in the courtroom to help himself think better," he says. "I think better when I move around. My 12-year-old son does a kind of dance when he explains something to me. There is a physical accompaniment to a mental process...
Combat, for instance, is so popular in the Far East that when its star, Vic Morrow, visited Manila, several schools just surrendered and declared a holiday. Perry Mason is so well known in Italy that his name has become a synonym for lawyer; in certain circles in Portugal, you don't call a Cabinet minister a clunkhead but a "Mr. Ed." Dr. Kildare is top-rated in places as far afield as Poland and Southern Rhodesia. And Bonanza, which is seen in no fewer than 59 countries, tots up a weekly world audience of 350 million...
...doesn't mean that he has to take it seriously-or even like it. Sandy Koufax, born Sanford Brown in Brooklyn ? years ago, picked baseball mostly because it seemed easier than being an architect-which is what he first wanted to be. His stepfather, Irving Koufax, is a lawyer, and his mother is an accountant, and they were more than a little taken aback when Sandy decided to spend his life throwing a ball around. To this day, baseball is never discussed in the Koufax household...