Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other authorities to make the film, and in the end the controversy may be settled on the narrow grounds of just what was agreed to. The state contends that Wiseman had promised not to photograph incompetent inmates and to give the state final review. Unfortunately the agreement was largely oral, and is wide open to dispute. But it may be easier to settle that than to reconcile the thornier question of how much privacy an insane convict is entitled to in the face of the public's right to be informed about what amounts to a state scandal...
...revolutionaries. "The Frenchman wants to join us," Che wrote in his diary March 21. "I asked him to go organize a network of support in France, where he would return after passing through Havana. He wants to marry his girl and have a son." Then on March 25: "Long oral report on the situation to the Frenchman. We decided to call the movement the National Liberation Front of Bolivia...
From that moment, it was apparent that the Chief was to be a judge whose concern and feeling for the individual tended to outweigh his reliance on specific precedents of the law. During oral arguments before the court, it became his custom to break into a lawyer's taut legalistic reasoning and ask: "Yes, but is it fair?" In Reynolds v. Sims, which in 1964 extended "one man, one vote" to both houses of state legislatures, he wrote for the majority: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic...
...article "Thistles in the New Towns" [Sept. 29j, you described the recent changes at Reston in northern Virginia and stated that "Simon recalls that 'Reston never recovered' after the collapse of an oral deal with the Washington Gas Light Company to supply $6,000,000 at a low interest rate." Although we worked with Mr. Simon and his associates for quite some time in exploring ways that we might be helpful in connection with getting Reston started, there was no "oral deal" involved at any state of our relationship. We are just as sure of this...
...influence they do possess. Some years ago a colleague remarked to me that the top students determined the character of any given department. He may well have been correct. I have yet to know a scholar who did not respond in some fashion to the flow of written and oral arguments presented by good students. This situation provides the most significant opening for students who respond critically and negatively to the world about them. If they come to the faculty rigidly and dogmatically prepared to defend radical positions at all costs, they will get nowhere and defeat their own purposes...