Word: notional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When President Ford was defeated, Bork briefly considered a Washington law practice but ultimately decided to return to Yale. The move was a financial success, but unsatisfying nonetheless. He published his book, The Antitrust Paradox, ten years in the making, debunking the antitrust notion that bigness was badness in corporate America. Businessmen flocked to his New Haven office, willing to pay $250 an hour for his counsel on antitrust and Justice Department matters. His income soared into six figures, and he quickly paid off a small debt left over from his children's schooling and began to build...
...cliche and does not rank with Robert Crumb or Ralph Steadman, let alone Daumier. Twenty years later, even these small fangs are gone. His work gums its subjects, rolls on its back and waggles its paws in its demotic eagerness to be liked. If this is the Whitney's notion of satire, no wonder it shelved its plans for a Keinholz installation last year...
...television age, the way Bork comes across could be critically important. Both sides of the debate pay lip service to the notion that they do not want to see the issue politicized. That objective is not necessarily all that laudable, and certainly not all that likely. The confirmation of such an ideologically controversial nominee, one whose effect on the court and the nation could be enormous for years to come, is ultimately a political matter. If Americans watching the hearings this week like what they see, if they are reassured by either Bork's mind or his manner, the advice...
Those rulings have reshaped American life -- which is precisely Bork's complaint. He accuses the recent court of liberal "judicial activism," using its power to accomplish social goals that have eluded -- or been opposed by -- legislatures. His own philosophy, he claims, is based on fealty to "neutral principles," the notion that judges should not formulate their legal principles based on the outcome they will produce in the particular case being heard. And yet, as his opponents point out, Bork's record makes him appear to be result-oriented in his own way: in almost all of the court rulings...
...widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that courts should "renounce outright the whole notion of congressional standing...