Word: portias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chary of overdoing trial scenes, Shakespeare made them as airtight as a Supreme Court brief-perhaps most notably in The Merchant of Venice. At issue is Shylock's 3,000-ducat loan to Antonio, who borrowed the money to help Bassanio sue for Portia's hand. If Antonio fails to repay in three months, says Shylock...
...PORTIA SHEEN Kowloon, Hong Kong...
...woman has greater opportunity in the law than ever before. More women are becoming interested in the law as a profession. Law schools have markedly relaxed their traditional prejudice against women students. And, largely because many women have proved outstanding attorneys and judges, it is slowly becoming easier for Portia to compete with males for jobs...
...University of Chicago Law School, teaching a range of topics from arbitration to an advanced course in "Law in the Behavioral Sciences." Her wise observation is that by acting naturally as a woman, "appealing to the emotional component present in the situation and using different techniques with different individuals," Portia often has an edge over the all-too-logical male...
Against the Shark. Queen of the world's marathon swimmers, Mary is the daughter of a Shafter, Calif., dentist who would have preferred a Portia to a naiad. But law was for landlubbers, and in 1958 she swam from Malibu to Santa Monica, a distance of 18 miles, in 8 hrs. 19 min. Next came California's 25-mile Catalina...