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...Clark and Potter Stewart all wrote separate concurring opinions to try to clarify what Brennan said. Justices Felix Frankfurter and John Marshall Harlan put forth separate dissents...
...with Potter Stewart belonging to neither group but tending to go along with the conservatives. Often in controversial cases, the side that Stewart decided for became the majority. "As Stewart goes." Washington lawyers have said, only half-jokingly. "so goes the court." Lawyer's Lawyer. The court's divisions involve some paradoxes. The judicial "liberals" take what is, in traditional political terms, a conservative stand for the rights-and-liberties provisions of the Constitution, as opposed to its clauses granting great powers to the Federal Government...
...Microbiologist Edward Adelberg and Stanford's husband-and-wife Historians (China) Arthur and Mary Wright (he got a new Yale chair; she became the first woman tenure-holder on Yale's liberal-arts faculty). On the other hand, Stanford got Yale's Historian David Potter. To replace Potter, Yale snagged Johns Hopkins' topflight Historian C. Vann Woodward, whose terms were a blue-ribbon chair and a year's leave of absence with pay before he ever reaches New Haven...
...BEST REMAINING SEATS, by Ben Hall (266 pp.; Potter; $12.50), recalls the vanishing glories of the movie palaces of the 1920s and '30s. If you did not like the movie, you could soak up culture in the lobby looking at the statues. You could buy popcorn under a 40-ft. ceiling, or slump in a lounge that made the baths of Caracalla look like a bird-feeding station. The oldtime movie palaces were (and in some glorious cases still are) the grandest, most begilt structures-inside, at least-ever plastered together; here pictures and text combine for a properly...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: THE MAN AND THE MOTIVE (256 pp.)-Anthony Nutting-Clarkson N. Potter...