Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) ruled that the state must provide free counsel for defendants who cannot afford a lawyer...
...Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) said that a defendant has a right to have his lawyer with him when he is being questioned...
...Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific genius of my generation," he said, "we have made the world a neighborhood. Now, through the moral and spiritual genius of yours, we will make it a brotherhood...
...fantastic days of the Army-McCarthy hearings, they would sit head-to-head in the Senate caucus room, the brooding, heavy-browed Senator and the soft-cheeked, puffy-eyed young lawyer, exchanging eager whispers or concerned glances. Now and again the Senator would raise a rasping voice to plead a "point of order." Now and again the young counsel would scuttle through his papers for a sharp question or a deft answer...
That was 14 years ago, and Senator Joe McCarthy has been dead for eleven of them. Lawyer Roy Cohn, now 41 and more a New York business entrepreneur than an attorney, still has some sharp questions and deft answers. In McCarthy, a loyal but stubbornly wrongheaded book, the Senator's onetime lieutenant tries to use those questions and answers to memorialize his old boss as a "courageous man who fought a monumental evil"-a feat that just might, of course, extend a little virtue-by-association to himself...