Word: less
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to conduct an investigation. In Washington, the House subcommittee on Africa ordered an inquiry. With both Pakistan and Israel also suspected of having or developing a nuclear capacity, the cause of nonproliferation was hardly being served by the prospect that the club was getting less exclusive...
...keep the opinion away from the then senior Justice, William O. Douglas. The most liberal member of the court, Douglas wanted to base the decision on a broad constitutional right to privacy. Burger preferred a more narrowly drawn opinion, one that would invite the states to replace rigid with less restrictive abortion laws. As a furious Douglas accused Burger of abusing the assigning power, the Chief gave the opinion to Blackmun, a Justice who had voted so often with Burger that he was nicknamed "Hip Pocket Harry'' by the clerks; indeed, Burger and Blackmun, former schoolmates...
...Burger himself. The Chief has been particularly considerate to Douglas since the old liberal retired from the court in 1975; he has called on him regularly, and personally supervised the construction of a ramp into the court for Douglas' wheelchair. (Douglas, a brilliant but acerbic man, was less kind to Burger while still on the bench. In conversations with his clerks, he referred to Burger not as "the Chief but as "this Chief...
...votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First Amendment freedom of religion than with parental authority over children," says Yale's Robert A. Burt. "Burger makes a point of saying that these are good strict parents who do not take welfare." While Earl Warren was skeptical of traditional authority, Burger is usually...
...various colors-road maps, as Robert Craft said, to perfect performances. But the price of perfection could be too high. In 1936, preparing the posthumous premiere of Berg's Violin Concerto, Webern covered only eight bars in two rehearsals. He had to withdraw in favor of a less exacting conductor...