Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Each year the library visiting committee met with us, and each year we told our sad tale. One year, a particular Harvard graduate had written a history of the Supreme Court. He himself was a lawyer. He was particularly well fitted to be long, verbose, tiresome, and pompous. When we told him, as the new chairman of our committee, that we wanted a rare books library, he became indignant and said he thought it was a very poor use of money. In fact, he thought that rare books were utterly useless, and as far as he was concerned, he would...
...seems that Kesey's lawyer made a deal with the Court. Kesey was to be released on condition he would go among the hippie masses (by this time there were hippie masses, such was the strength of the Word), and tell them to stop taking...
Well he did tell them as his lawyer had promised he would, and then again he didn't. What he said was, it's time to graduate from acid: "Once you've been through that door you can't keep going through it again." He never said acid shouldn't be the first step. He said you had to make the kind of consciousness acid created deeper, more permanent, without the drug...
...Donald Bourgeois, a Negro lawyer in St. Louis, was suddenly struck by the thought that every residential city block forms a potential human team to press into social action. On this inspiration he built his Block Partnership program, which unites the residents of a black ghetto block with a white civic-action group. These two sides discuss and tackle all kinds of problems, ranging from jobs to plumbing. In three months, Bourgeois' program has proved so effective that he was invited by Mayor Jonsson of Dallas to help set up the same operation there. The key, says Bourgeois...
...lawyer on the board of another company finds out that the firm will soon market a profitable new product. But one of his law partners is an adviser to several estates and intends to unload the company's shares. Should the lawyer dissuade his partner...