Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bill "Whoops" Buckner, Dave Henderson (of dramatic homerun fame), and Kangeroo Court judge Don Baylor were all recently traded to make way for the youth movement at Fenway, but this is pretty much the same bunch of guys who came within one strike from winning a World Series last year...
...referendum onacademic freedom at Harvard. More than 200 lawprofessors have signed a letter expressing concernover Bok's slow response to the Dalton vote andhis decision to override tenure for VisitingProfessor of Law David Trubek, another left-wingscholar. Like Trubek, Dalton is associated withCritical Legal Studies, a movement which holdsthat the law is rooted in dominant social normsand not abstract notions of justice...
...liberals are wreaking havoc on the whole confirmation process," says Dan Casey of the American Conservative Union. "We are reluctant to engage in that." Instead, conservative groups have concentrated on mailings to their members. One statement charges that the anti-Bork movement "is a consortium of extremists, kooks, weirdos and America-haters -- the likes of which we have not seen since Jane Fonda held fund-raising dinners for George McGovern...
...protection to "speech that advocates . . . the violation of any law," a position at odds with the oft-invoked standard of Oliver Wendell Holmes that only speech posing a "clear and present danger" may be suppressed. Had Bork's view been accepted in the early days of the civil rights movement, it could have been used to prohibit many calls for peaceful civil disobedience...
...referendum onacademic freedom at Harvard. More than 200 lawprofessors have signed a letter expressing concernover Bok's slow response to the Dalton vote andhis decision to override tenure for VisitingProfessor of Law David Trubek, another left-wingscholar. Like Trubek, Dalton is associated withCritical Legal Studies, a movement which holdsthat the law is rooted in dominant social normsand not abstract notions of justice...