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...Burger court is the second oldest in history, with an average age of 70, less than two years younger than the Nine Old Men who made Franklin Roosevelt miserable until they began leaving the court in 1937. The present high bench is "the first ever to have a majority of its members 76 or over," calculates Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. Even the younger Justices have reached the outer edges of middle age. The youngest, Sandra Day O'Connor, celebrated her 55th birthday last week...
...that he is thinking about quitting. Court watchers have been noting for years that Thurgood Marshall, 76, is in poor physical shape, but he has remarked privately, "I was appointed for life and intend to serve out my term." William Brennan, who will be 79 in April, is the oldest of the Justices, but remains spry mentally and physically. Remarried in 1983, the Eisenhower appointee seems less limited by his years than his younger colleague William Rehnquist, 60, whose back problems send him home from the court many days...
Spock was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1903, the oldest of six children of a well-to-do railroad lawyer and his wife. The home was "child-centered" and loving, he says, but his mother was a "fiercely opinionated, moralistic, rather tyrannical person." Young Ben and his siblings ate separately from their parents, had to be in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached. Spock concludes: "There must...
Discovery of the finely wrought objects was kept under wraps, awaiting the beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of Jerusalem's Israel Museum, which last week placed them on display. They include the oldest cloth fragments and painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable...
Germany's Oriental romance, however, ends in ironic political tragedy. The coining of "Indo-European" in 1813 is viewed as Europe's usurpation of India's birthright for use as a political weapon. Schopenhauer's mythical India, by displacing the Semitic tradition as the oldest known to the west, is said to have caused its fall from veneration into disfavor, eventually leading to Gobineau's Inequality of the Races and the creed of Aryan supremacy...