Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview with Jimmy Carter conducted by TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. Moving casually from his Executive study to the high-hedged patio outside, Carter answered questions about the direction and depth of his leadership at a time when opinion polls reveal increasing public dissatisfaction. Says Ajemian: "Carter seemed very durable, never exasperated...
...squarely in the middle, was Powell, who was never that sure he wanted to be a judge in the first place. Quiet, scholarly, wistful and widely respected for his legal acumen, he agreed in part with two different groups within the court. He accepted a portion of the opinion of the four Justices who upheld the California Supreme Court decision in favor of Bakke: Burger, William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens and Potter Stewart. He also sided in part with the four Justices who decided against Bakke: William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall and Byron White. He thus ended by writing...
...took Blackmun longer than the other Justices to reach a decision in the case, he expressed it all the more passionately in his separate opinion. He wrote that he would "yield to no one in my earnest hope that the time will come when an affirmative-action program is unnecessary and is only a relic of the past." But the slow pace of desegregation after Brown vs. Board of Education had convinced him that his hope is a "slim" one. He thought it was ironic that the injection of race into university admissions could cause such a disturbance, when preferences...
...Agreement with this argument," wrote Associate Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion, "would invalidate not just New York's laws, but all comparable legislation elsewhere in the nation. We find no merit...
...majority opinion, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens said he did not consider the "reference to excretory and sexual organs and activities" as obscene. Instead, he termed it as "patently offensive" in a broadcast media that "excercises a uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans...