Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, believe in strict judicial restraint, holding that the court exists not to make law but to interpret it rather strictly. And there are the judicial activists, who believe that many wrongs can be righted by following the broad mandate of the Constitution. The main thrust of the Warren court, particularly since Frankfurter's retirement in 1962, has been toward activism. This view, complains Justice John Harlan, a Frankfurter man, "is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle' and that this court should...
...other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...presidential elections, the F.G.D.S. has hung onto anti-Gaullism as one of its few unifying principles. Its member groups-Guy Mollet's Socialists (74 seats), the Radicals (25) and the Convention (18)-still think more in narrow party terms than of broader federation concepts. Workers make up the main following of the F.G.D.S. With Mitterrand's appeal waning, the Federation may lose some seats...
...times have changed again in Russia. After four years of study, the Supreme Soviet is about to enact a new Family, Code, the object of daily dissection in Izvestia over the past six months. One of its main provisions removes the burden of shame that was the inevitable legacy to illegitimate children of Stalin's wartime mating call. It not only provides for financial support when paternity can be established but, more important, permits unwed mothers to make up a father's name to put on their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that...
What is least important about this small, fierce novel is that it is a brilliant stunt-a male author staying undetected, for the length of a book, in the mind of a female main character. Brian Moore does not pull off his wig and bow, nor is there any impulse to applaud. Applause, of course, would mean that the deception had failed. It is, in fact, successful, and Moore earns, with great cleverness, a distinction that many writers are born with-that of being judged as a lady novelist...