Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right of access to judicial proceedings. Stevens told an audience at the University of Arizona College of Law that while the court has protected the right to disseminate information, it has never upheld any right to acquire information. Whether that reasoning will continue to close courtroom doors to the press remains to be seen. In the meantime, legal experts say that the Gannett decision should be narrowly interpreted...
Only a new ruling by the Supreme Court can clear up the muddle left by Gannett. This fall the court will have just such an opportunity when it decides whether to review a decision by the Virginia Supreme Court that allowed judges to bar the press from trials. Whatever the outcome in that case or in others that are sure to come up to the high court, the Justices have created the uncertainty themselves. Something is clearly amiss when, as Michigan Law School Professor Yale Kamisar puts it, "Justices have to explain their decisions at the next annual A.B.A. meeting...
...about things frivolous and familiar. Two months before publication, Bombeck's latest volume, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, has one of the biggest advance runs in publishing history: 700,000 copies in two printings, of which 500,000 have been snapped up by bookstores. If the huge press run does not sell, Aunt Erma has a remedy. Says she: "Either we're going to have a lot of doorstops around the Bombeck house or we'll mail them out as Christmas cards...
Speaking in halting English, the lama told a press conference that Buddhism, particularly the distinctive Tibetan form, has something to offer the materialistic West: "Through centuries, we have acquired some knowledge of mind." He added, in St. Patrick's, that "one of the most important things is compassion. You cannot buy compassion in one of New York's big shops...
PASSION PLAY by Jerzy Kosinski; St. Martin's Press; 271 pages...