Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 22 issue of your magazine comments on a recent opinion written by me in a majority decision of the Michigan Supreme Court in a case involving nudists. Accompanying your comments was a seminude photograph of me taken while bathing in a Finnish sauna. This photograph was but one of several hundred of a wide variety of pictures taken over a three-day period early last spring by a photographer for LIFE magazine, in connection with a photo-illustrated review depicting typical scenes in my native Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the setting of my then recently published novel Anatomy...
that I posed gladly for you for this picture, and that I did so just recently with the knowledge that it was to be used along with your comments on my opinion in the nudist case. You have deceived your readers; you have portrayed me as a tasteless, witless and publicity-hungry exhibitionist; you have done a vast disservice to any fair public concept of the dignity and responsibility of our courts and the earnest hard-working men who sit on them. You have literally stripped me in public and have forced upon me, a justice of a supreme court...
...indulge in a kind of thinking which assumes that foreign policy decisions should be made on the basis of opinion polls, we might as well decide now to surrender our position of world leadership to the Communists and become a second-rate nation. It is the responsibility of a leader to lead public opinion-not just to follow it. He must get all the facts before making a decision, and then he must develop support for that decision among the people by making the facts known to them...
Since the second week of September Harvard graduate and off-campus students have been engulfed in a deluge of parking tickets for "off-street" overnight parking in Cambridge. This activity is not predatory, contrary to under current opinion, but arises as the result of lack of information on the part of Harvard students and poor administration on the part of Cambridge authorities...
...Defiant Ones is yet another example of what too much money and too low an opinion of the general mentality can do to a potentially fine picture. The basic idea is a fine one: a white convict and a black one escape from a chain gang together. They hate one another as only a poor white and a down-trodden negro can; but they must co-operate in even the simplest act of daily life...