Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the right-wing activists who hail Bork for his ideological bent, Reagan and his men have gone out of their way to present the nominee as a mainstream jurist who decides cases with a completely open mind. "If you want someone with Justice Powell's detachment and statesmanship," said the President in a speech last July, "you can't do better than Judge Bork." The White House distributed to key Senators a 70-page briefing book outlining many of Bork's rulings and proclaiming that the judge was a model practitioner of "judicial restraint...
...conditions arise that may require the application of constitutional principles in ways the framers did not foresee. But he insists that the role of judges is to identify the "core values" that are contained in the text and history of specific constitutional provisions, and then to apply these as present-day situations warrant...
Bork has also said the First Amendment extends no protection to "speech that advocates . . . the violation of any law," a position at odds with the oft-invoked standard of Oliver Wendell Holmes that only speech posing a "clear and present danger" may be suppressed. Had Bork's view been accepted in the early days of the civil rights movement, it could have been used to prohibit many calls for peaceful civil disobedience...
...Secretary Jose Concepcion, whose twin brother Raul was among the businessmen the Executive Secretary had accused of treason. As other Cabinet members joined in the melee, a furious Aquino said, "Don't you people have anything else to do except fight and quarrel with each other?" To the officials present she said, "I want all your resignations right now." She then called the emergency session of the full Cabinet. Said U.S. Political Analyst Richard Kessler: "For a long time, the question has been, 'Can Cory live without Joker?' Now she really can't live with...
...expansion and the record-breaking stock market advance have rapidly swelled the ranks of the rich. Says Ray Gentile, a builder on Long Island's North Shore: "A shocking number of people have suddenly become wealthy, and they want to show the world. Their luxury home is the ultimate present to themselves...