Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobel Committee had not overlooked the women; their campaign had not begun until August 1976, six months after the deadline for nominations. Last week the committee acknowledged that popular opinion had settled on the right candidates. Corrigan, 33, and Williams, 34, were named winners of last year's Peace Prize. Simultaneously, the 1977 award was given to Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization dedicated to freeing political prisoners and ending the use of torture around the world. The cash that goes with each prize...
...Ireland's former Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, longtime chairman of AI's executive committee. There is no reason to criticize the duplicated honor. From its start 16 years ago as a letter-writing campaign by London Lawyer Peter Benenson, AI has become a potent force on world opinion. It now counts more than 168,000 members in 107 countries...
...Referring to the officials who pass upon art in the Soviet Union, Slava asked: "Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word? . . . Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he In knows, what he has personally thought about, experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated...
Ironically, it was the California Supreme Court, long regarded as perhaps the most liberal and forward-looking in the country, that upheld Bakke in a decisive 6-to-l opinion. Basing its decision on a rather literal reading of the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law, the California court stated that the use of race as a criterion in any official program calls for judicial "strict scrutiny." Unless a "compelling state interest" can be demonstrated and there are no viable, nonracial alternative methods available, the use of race is forbidden. Here, the court ruled that the university...
...going to bet that they reverse the Bakke case [and rule against him] . . . In my judgment there will be some provisions left open for an affirmative-action program that will allow making race an admissions distinction. The vote might be 6 to 3, and the majority opinion may be somewhat muddled...