Word: magna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still dancing at 5 a.m. But for Jackie, the pleasures of private relaxation can never be wholly separated from the imperatives of public duty. This month she will fly to England to help Queen Elizabeth dedicate a memorial to her late husband at Runnymede, where King John accepted the Magna Carta...
...decision incensed Chicago cops, and state legislators angrily talked impeachment. But Judge Leighton, a Negro, a noted former criminal lawyer, and a magna Harvard Law graduate, stood his ground. He insisted that "a policeman has no right to pull a gun unless he knows a felony is being committed." Carrying a broken beer bottle is no crime, said Leighton. Besides, "How do we know that these men, who are unable to speak English, said what these officers say they said?" Ruled Judge Leighton: "The right to resist unlawful arrest is a phase of self-defense...
Given a five-year trial period by the Faculty, the Program was limited to 20 undergraduates a year partly because it was experimental, chiefly because the social science departments were reluctant to lose any more of their potential magna and summa students and imaginative tutors...
...Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. When the Stanislavsky-directed Moscow Art Theater last appeared in New York in 1924, it was the apostle of a new dramatic naturalism bent on depicting man with all his mental warts, body aches and soul pains. For U.S. actors it was a kind of Magna Carta, freeing them from stilted and artificial stage conventions. In more recent years, the Stanislavsky Method has suffered the old age of any revolution, which is to become a religion. The esthetic irony of the Moscow troupe's reappearance on the Broadway scene is that 41 years have effected...
...prison camp. There, he got the Red Cross to send him the textbooks that he would need for his junior and senior years at Princeton. After his release, Katzenbach returned to Princeton, wrote a thesis and passed both his junior and senior exams, all in six weeks. He graduated magna cum laude, took his law degree at Yale, and won a Rhodes scholarship. He practiced law only briefly, then taught at the Yale and University of Chicago law schools...