Word: points
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example. It had "less to do with the First Amendment freedom of religion than with parental authority over children," says Yale's Robert A. Burt. "Burger makes a point of saying that these are good strict parents who do not take welfare." While Earl Warren was skeptical of traditional authority, Burger is usually respectful of it. But he can be unpredictable: he wrote the first Supreme Court opinion (Reed vs. Reed in 1971) in the line of cases giving women...
...Justices are not talking to each other, take.'' there is Such not absence enough of informal give consultation and can lead to a proliferation of concurring opinions, as each Justice feels compelled to explain his point of view...
...important, his moun tain treks re-enacted his artistic aspirations. More than any composer before or since, Webern worked on the timberline between sound and silence. His austere, rigorously condensed pieces seem to hover in a clear, rarefied ether of their own, like clusters of ice crystals on the point of vaporizing. ''Scarcely audible,'' ''dying away'' are typical directions in his scores...
...change-rather than deep-six her again. In the movie the DEMS drops into waters unsafe for divers to repair the Titanic's hull. On the set, its operators insisted, DEMS was so sensitive it not only could pour tea but even unzip zippers. At that point, Her Ladyship decamped...
...worked on long-term stories. Some two dozen Timesmen busied themselves writing books, others freelanced for magazines, but none completely escaped the ennui that afflicts a newspaperman suddenly without a newspaper. "I feel like a frog in the winter," Times Foreign Editor Charles Douglas-Home said at one point. "All horizons have contracted. Things continue to function, but at a tiny percent of efficiency...