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Since his 1975 swearing-in as the 101st man to serve as a Justice, Stevens has brought a fresh approach to his work. On a court noted for its fragmentation and diversity, Stevens is the extreme case, a personal loner and a legal maverick. Yet he has won the respect of the other Justices for his originality and ability to find new angles on old ideas (he once casually asked a clerk to "rethink" the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause). Says one of his colleagues: "If there is any conceivable...
...Brontës have a monument or tomb. A week ago, Eliot at last got her place among the poets. In a centennial observation of her death, a black memorial stone was set in the Abbey floor and dedicated to Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot), the maverick Victorian in whose hands, said one speaker, "the novel became a moral force...
...dissident -which generally means "modernist" -artists are not persecuted as systematically as dissident writers, and fewer of them actually end up laying rails in Siberia or being shot full of drugs in KGB madhouses, this merely reflects the fact that art is not as forceful a channel for maverick ideas as literature. Nevertheless, state approval governs every aspect of the production, exhibition, sale and discussion of painting and sculpture. The essence of totalitarianism is that there must be no gaps in the monolith, nowhere for culture to create its models of dissent...
After defending the Iranian revolution from the podium, Clark met privately with Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr and went even further. The maverick U.S. lawyer said he had been persuaded to form a stateside commission to investigate alleged U.S. crimes against Iran. But Clark's initiative apparently did not strengthen his standing at the conference: the American delegation was unable to get a single reference to the hostages into the final resolution. Furthermore, Clark himself was denounced as a possible spy acting on Carter's behalf in the resolution, which accused him of plotting like a "latterday...
...first time in years, a CCA majority rules the city's powerful School Committee. On the city council sit four traditional Independents and four CCA members--and one Alfred E. Vellucci, maverick Independent, who votes more liberal on many issues than the CCA councilors...