Word: mirandas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prospero, Bernard Holmberg properly dominated the plot's complications. His long soliloquies demonstrated the remarkable range of control-both as written and performed-that Prospero exercises over the other inhabitants of the island. Holmberg was affectionately tender to his daughter Miranda, firmly in command of the fairy Ariel; angrily severe in his orders to Caliban his slave. His Prospero possessed the strength and virility to make the aging character less concerned with his own leave-taking than with ensuring himself that those around him awake to the significance of their destined relationships in the proper spirit of awe and responsibility...
...igniting in him those sparks of sexual creativity that, as much as much as anything else, trigger dramatic confrontations on the island. Interwoven with corresponding discussions of language's uses as well as interconnecting considerations of freedom and servility, the sexual energy of this production drew parallels among Miranda, her lover Ferdinand, Ariel, and Caliban in their individual comings-to-term with themselves...
Last week the Burger court sharpened that trend with a 5-to-4 decision limiting Miranda v. Arizona, the famous 1966 ruling that requires police to warn all suspects in custody of their rights to silence and counsel. Speaking for the majority, Chief Justice Burger offered prosecutors a possible way out when police fail to give the Miranda warnings. Until last week, such a failure was thought to make a suspect's in-custody statements wholly inadmissible at his trial...
...unwarned suspect later takes the stand, his pretrial statements to the police can be used to impeach his courtroom testimony. In sharp dissent, Justice William J. Brennan argued that the effect of the decision is that police may now "freely interrogate an accused incommunicado" despite Miranda; the accused may then see his own careless words convict him "if he has the temerity to testify in his own defense." Brennan's argument failed to move Burger, who dismissed "the speculative possibility that impermissible police conduct will be encouraged...
Tragedy. Clark sees no virtue in Mitchell's invitation to police to ignore the Supreme Court's Miranda rule requiring that suspects in custody be warned of their right to silence and counsel. Such evasion, says Clark, encourages third-degree-style interrogations-a practice that scares off tipsters while impeding scientific detection that might yield better evidence. He has no use for another Mitchell priority-jailing dangerous suspects before trial without bail-in part because the required pre-trial hearings on the "dangerousness" of such defendants are likely to clog the already overwhelmed courts. Moreover, he regards...