Word: professor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third branch of Government, Warren Burger's Supreme Court has avoided the hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
DAVID RIESMAN, sociologist: Richard Lyman of Stanford University is one of the few college presidents who is a real leader. He had the courage to fire a radical professor at the cost of dividing his faculty. Dan Evans was an inventive Governor of Washington. He developed an independent VISTA program. Terry Sanford [former Governor of North Carolina] is really a great leader. He developed projects for multiracial groups that influenced the educational programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society...
...business leaders of 1974 have generally been successful. Raymond Hay switched from an executive vice presidency at Xerox to the presidency of LTV. Gerald Meyers rose from vice president to chairman and chief executive of American Motors. Economics Professor Marina Whitman will start next month as chief economist and vice president at General Motors. The biggest losers among the businessmen were Arthur Taylor, eased out of the presidency of CBS, and Richard Kattel, the boy wonder of Atlanta's go-go banking days, who resigned his chairmanship of Citizens and Southern National Bank. The Comptroller of the Currency...
...instead to forces "from the principled minority." Wills, who spent six years in a Catholic seminary, says that "the Gospel's concerns are the ones that seem to me to be conservative in the right sense: concern for the poor, concern for peace, concern for social harmony." A humanities professor at Johns Hopkins and a classics scholar, Wills has written scathingly of Richard Nixon (Nixon Agonistes) and brilliantly of Thomas Jefferson (Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence). His latest work: Confessions of a Conservative. Wills' column appears in 70 newspapers...
...Harvard Law School Bulletin seldom lavish praise on the faculty, but for Dershowitz they made an exception. As the Bulletin put it, "He energetically attacks discrimination, represents criminals and defends the rights of others to defend themselves." The onetime boy wonder from Brooklyn (he was a full professor at Harvard at 28) admits to being "an extremist" on civil liberties. His credo: "If there is discrimination against anybody, there is discrimination against everybody." He has fought for the rights of American Nazis to speak and assemble, and successfully defended Actor Harry Reems, the lead in Deep Throat, against obscenity charges...