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Died. Harry Kalven Jr., 60, University of Chicago law professor who, with Colleague Hans Zeisel, wrote The American Jury, a definitive and laudatory tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken...
Apparently, the drafters of the bill placed priority on a civil libertarian principle--not on the possible ill-effects the rider will have on university administrators' daily routines and good-will...
Whatever the administrative inconveniences the Buckley bill creates for college registrars, they say, whatever the disruption of the traditional recommendation-writing system it causes, there still is an overriding necessity to extend right-to-know legislation to higher education. The "bureaucratic hassles" pale next to the civil libertarian principle at stake, they...
...doubtful if Robinson can match that feat with his present players. But given his reputation, he may manage some surprises. Win or lose, he intends to remain a stubborn, combative athlete; he feels no urge to play the role of ball-park civil libertarian. "The only reason I'm the first black manager," he says, "is because I was born black...
Lamont goes on to deny that an Oedipal complex, arising from hate of a father who hobnobbed with J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill, was "operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont attacks determinism in any name, shape and form (Christian theistic, Marxist economic, Skinnerian behaviorist, even shades he sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual...