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Word: legalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Social mores. Removing the legal strictures could make drug use socially acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Con..Four Reasons Why Not | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...profits for drug dealers, overcrowded jails, a distorted foreign policy and urban areas terrorized by bloodthirsty gangs. So why not end all these problems in a way that would save money, perhaps even raise it, and free more resources to treat addiction and abuse? Why not just make drugs legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...past, the faculty members on the committee have differred in their views on Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law is not concerned with abstract values but instead reflects social and economic trends. Frug, Kennedy and Tribe were outspoken in their support of CLS adherent Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton's unsuccessful tenure bid. Clark has been one of the most vocal opponents of CLS at the Law School...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Tribe to Lead Search for Dean | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

Salinger has won his legal battle but with predictable results: he has lost the war against unwanted attention. He was forced to communicate with a world he had long since renounced. He was summoned to Manhattan to give a deposition to the defense. His tone in that document is terse and grudging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted IN SEARCH OF J.D. SALINGER | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Five years after undertaking the project, Hamilton is sadder and presumably wiser, although not necessarily richer. Random House footed the legal bills, but of his $100,000 advance, the biographer used up half for research and travel expenses. And there was the cost of ambivalence: "I proceeded with as much tact and decency as one could," says Hamilton. "Nonetheless there he is, wanting to be left alone, and he isn't being left alone, and this is partly because of me." If he had known the outcome, would Hamilton have written about Salinger? "No," he says emphatically. How does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted IN SEARCH OF J.D. SALINGER | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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