Word: merryman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduced preventive detention and military justice for thousands who opposed the war, including hundreds arrested in the bloody Draft Riots in New York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman, a Southern sympathizer who had been convicted of treason by a military court. Merryman appealed to Justice Taney, who found that Lincoln had sought to suspend habeas corpus when it was "perfectly clear under the Constitution that he had no such power." In a subsequent Civil War case, the Supreme...
...surpasses even their own invariably high standards. The show begins slowly, unimpressively, as the groundwork of the plot is carefully laid. But the momentum picks up for good when Elsie (Ellen Burkhardt) and Jack Point (Terry Knickerbocker) team in a lovely duet that tells the sad tale of "the merryman and his maid ("I have a song to sing, O!"); in this evocatively staged number, lyrics, music, choreography and voices blend into a moving statement of the main terms of the drama--the conflict between lord and jester for the fair maiden's hand and heart...