Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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B.B.D. & W. Almost from the beginning, Chief Justice Warren seemed to be closer in spirit to veteran liberal Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas than to the other court veterans. But capable Administrator Warren aspired to be more than a mere dissenter, and he is credited with using his considerable persuasive talents to work out majorities for the liberal views. With the appointment of New Jersey Democrat William Brennan, there was formed a B.B.D. & W. dominant liberal bloc-Black, Brennan, Douglas and Warren. While no court bloc is ever hard and fast, this group-over a wide range of cases...
...Supreme Court change is more than one of mere personality. Mr. Dooley was just being Mr. Dooley when he said that the court follows the election returns, but in a far broader sense the court does change with the political climate. When Earl Warren stepped up to the nation's highest bench, Stalinist aggression had produced a violent, often excessive U.S. reaction, most sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld...
...architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
...back. Once more, one word led to another and Shortstop Logan steamed toward the pitcher's mound. Dodger First Baseman Gil Hodges started for Logan, Milwaukee Coach Johnny Riddle started for Hodges, and the fight was on. By American League standards the affair was a flop, lasted a mere five minutes. Out of the game went Logan and Drysdale. For his belligerence Logan drew a $100 fine; despite his beanball Drysdale was nicked for only $40. But the final score, Braves 8, Dodgers 5, was a far more important statistic. It left last year's pennant-winning Dodgers...
...much of the world fell for the slogans about the Chinese Reds as mere agrarian reformers, about Nationalist corruption, etc.. it was, says Chiang, partly his government's fault: "We lacked initiative in propaganda and substance in ideology." The Red victory, by Chiang's reckoning, was only 20% military; for the rest he details the case histories of treachery, infiltration, propaganda, the exploitation of an uprooted social order. One of the Reds' earliest tactics, recalls Chiang, was to incite the poor of a village to loot before Communist agents burned down the house of the landlords...