Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...useless emotions of race rivalry. Blaming Adam on the small fraction of Negro heritage he claims and abuses is as inappropriate as blaming the "game" you speak of on Caucasians, for Powell cannot sensibly be considered Negro any more than he can sensibly be considered truly American. The sensitive person of Nordic, African or whatever stock you please places men like Powell in the simple category, "moral garbage," which is a totally integrated system...
...Fourth Amendment, Douglas argued, the court should have required the Lewis-case narcotics agent to get a search warrant, for which he had probable cause. In Hoffa, even though Douglas voted to dismiss on technical grounds, he denounced the Government for " 'planting' a friend in a person's entourage so that he can secure incriminating evidence." In Osborn, Douglas argued that even prior judicial approval of Vick's bugging violated the Fourth Amendment ban against a search designed to uncover anything more than the loot or the tools of a crime. Moreover, he insisted, using such...
...about "the real me. I have an absolutely fearful temper. I always get upset when people don't get on with the job at hand. I always feel like saying 'Let's get on with it; it's the piece that matters, not our own personal thing.' I suppose another of my failings is that I am a thoroughly ambivalent person. Ambivalence can either be a vice or a virtue. But I am able to see both sides of anything to such an extent that it is terribly hard for me to make a decision...
Many people who knew that I am presently sectioning Professor Michael Walzer's course on Contemporary Political Theory (Gov 104) read the remark as a personal attack. This has been particularly depressing to me, because Professor Walzer is the last person I would want to attack: working with him in the last few months is the most exciting thing that has happened to me academically in four years at Harvard...
...censorship they are trying to impose on the already-written book is another story -- and a much blacker one. The Kennedys, after all, didn't have to designate one person to chronicle the late President's last days. But once they did, they should not have imposed such stringent ex post factor limits on the author of their choice...