Word: nuremberg
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...Billy Mitchell has revived the story of his courtmartial, conviction and suspension from service. Mitchell has been proven right, but the only officer at the trial to vote for his acquittal was Douglas MacArthur, who some years later would have his own Harry S. Creon to contend with. The Nuremberg War Crimes trial raised the issue again. And in the past few weeks the headlines have been full of the trial and conviction of Muhammad Ali and Captain Howard B. Levy--both of whom refused to compromise with conscience...
...actually won two Oscars, as the stoic Portuguese fisherman in Captains Courageous (1937) and the warmhearted Father Flanagan in Boys' Town (1938), was also memorable as Hemingway's gnarled hero in The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and as a stern jurist in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...nature of the Vietnam conflict, Vaughn said, he unequivocably condoned all forms of disobedience and protest. He is not a pacifist, but if drafted (a hypothetical disaster, since he is 33) he would either leave the country or take the issue to the courts on the grounds that the Nuremberg trials held that "a man's personal morality supersedes that of the state...
...does not feel that the power of casting a vote for either Mr. ohnson or Mr. Nixon will be a protest commensurate with the requirements of conscience, one should certainly wait for the Nuremberg trials that will follow the present period of unrest. There, by orderly procedure of law, the matter of responsibility for the fine-deaths of farmers will undoubtedly be considered and reconsidered by reasonable, courteous, duly designated judges. At that time and at that time only will it be appropriate to cast aspersons on the activities of a head of state and his closest lieutenants...
Draftsmanship came naturally to the Nuremberg-born goldsmith's son. As a boyhood apprentice, Dürer learned to control the sharp burin as it plowed ornamental-and indelible-lines across the rich metal. At 15, he got his father's permission to study art, and he turned his point to image making. Even before his death in 1528, Dürer's chop M., a reminder of his goldsmith's training, was known across Europe. To show the full range of his accomplishment, 150 drawings by him and his contemporaries have been assembled from...