Word: opinionator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several faculty members contacted yesterday, including associate deans Mitchell Spellman and S. James Adelstein, said they are unaware of the possible elimination of the minority subcommittee and do not have any opinion on the issue. Daniel C. Tosteson, dean of the Medical School, could not be reached for comment last week...
When an interviewer asked his opinion of the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, Mather said they were, "a magnificent thing" that allowed the public to have "direct observations of the methods used in investigations of this sort: guilt by association, built by accusation, use of innuendo, distortion of facts, use of half-truths when the whole truth presents a different picture...
...believe that Harvard is acting without conscience, for without even asking the faculty or alumni, it tells us that we, the students, form too small a "constituency" for our opinion to be respected. And worse yet, it attempts to excuse itself on the grounds that what it does, it does out of the moral conviction that by being mute it is really helping the South African people...
...vote, the court struck down a Massachusetts law forbidding corporations to use their funds to influence a referendum that did not notably affect their business or property. Writing for the majority, Justice Lewis Powell rejected a state court opinion that corporations do not enjoy full First Amendment protection. The decision permits two Boston banks and three corporations to spend freely on any political matter.* Because speech comes from a corporation rather than a person does not deprive the firm of First Amendment guarantees, explained Powell...
...White's fear that corporations would use their power to dominate referendum debates, Powell responded that the same could be said of news organizations, whose First Amendment rights are unquestioned. Powell's comment on the power of the press was almost an aside. Filing a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger aired the same view in an eight-page essay that at times bordered on a polemic. "Modern media empires" enjoy "vastly greater influence" than most banks or corporations, stated Burger. They "pose a much more realistic threat to valid interests...