Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Affairs here. Up to now, there has been no one facility for such a study. Different facets of it were covered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Public Administration, and the different area study programs. The Russian Research Center and the International Legal Studies program of the Law School will also continue their specialized work...
Unfortunately for the layman, this is one of the few times in the book that Hiss expresses any of his inner thoughts. For the most part, In the Court of Public Opinion is another legal defense of Alger Hiss, witness and then defendent. It is as disappointing to those liberals who expected Hiss to write passionately about his generation of "bright young men," as it is to those who believed that Hiss would finally break down and admit that Whittaker Chambers was telling the truth after all. Hiss never swerves from his past testimony, denying all of Chambers' assertions, including...
...plods through the cold, carefully-worded book, Hiss' persistence does have its effect. Hiss certainly "appears" right in much of his attack on Chambers' testimony, and he is often convincing in offsetting incriminating evidence. But it is this legal approach to the case that detracts the most from the book. The work is a microscopic observation of the whole Chambers-Hiss case from Hiss' point-of-view, a point-of-view already well-known. Hiss tells the reader little about his intellectual background, especially his attitude toward radicalism, something that is crucial to the whole Case. One wonders...
Five innings, however, constitute a legal game, and the tie will be officially entered in the record books. This result, indecisive as it was, enabled the Crimson to clinch its third consecutive Greater Boston League title...
...Great Deception. Hiss winds up his literary case in precisely the same place where his legal case foundered: the charge that he was ultimately a victim of "forgery by typewriter." During the trials, the case against Hiss was nailed down by documents which included typewritten pages of secret information that Chambers said Hiss had given him. In an effort to deal with this part of the Chambers case, the defense traced Hiss's old Woodstock typewriter to its new owner and brought it into court during the trial. It turned out to be, indeed, the typewriter that had typed...