Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern Methodist University's brisk, balding Robert Gerald Storey, 65, dean of the law school and founder in 1951 of the Southwestern Legal Center at S.M.U., one of the foremost legal laboratories in the U.S. Dean Storey, president of the American Bar Association in 1952-53, is a veteran lawyer who neither conceals nor advertises that he never got a law degree (he did not complete his undergraduate education until 1947). A small-town Texan, he got into practice by reading the law in books that he bought on credit, became a top Dallas attorney and served...
...amassed a $30 million fortune as Prime Minister, he was expected to pass the job on to his nearest male relative. In 1951 the Ranas were overthrown with surprising ease, and the Kings of Nepal came into their own. A democratic constitution, with points of resemblance to the legal systems of Britain, India and the U.S., was drawn up, and elections held last spring...
...political army. We fought to transform the economic and social structure of the nation." Assisting Raul are Reds or pinks in top army spots, including the army inspector general, the commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, the commander of La Cabana's 7th Regiment, the army legal chief in Oriente, the military commander of Las Villas district...
...contended," wrote Justice Potter Stewart, "that the State's action was justified because the motion picture attractively portrays a relationship which is contrary to the moral standards, the religious precepts and the legal code of its citizenry. The argument misconceives what it is that the Constitution protects. Its guarantee is not confined to the expression of ideas that are conventional or shared by a majority ... In the realm of ideas it protects expression which is eloquent no less than that which is unconvincing...
Actually, it is difficult to take offense at any particular passage in the screenplay. The discussions are conducted with verbal propriety and legal objectivity, and every one of them is necessary to the development of the theme. But it is possible to object to the theme itself, and to suspect that the moviemakers picked it principally because it offered opportunities for sensationalism. Nevertheless, the film displays an attitude toward sex that is more wholesome than the merely sniggering spirit that prevails in many a movie; and for those who can stand the straight talk, it provides a memorable exhibition...