Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such examples of rigid domination of conservatives over constructive liberals have been increasingly frequent of late in American educational institutions. The question has ceased to be one concerning the justice of conflicting views; the very principles of liberalism are at stake. Education is presumably an effort to cultivate the rational powers of youth and yet in these instances such faculties have been forced to choose between the option of conforming to the prevailing mode of thought, or of ceasing to function...
Professor Frankfurter points out that on this question of the "consciousness of Supreme Court under the practice in this state to consider whether or not sufficient evidence had been introduced at the trial to justify a conviction. In Massachusetts that apparently remains a question to be determined solely by the discretion of the trial judge, which the appellate tribunal is not at liberty to correct. Mr. Frankfurter has nothing to say about the interesting ruling of the Supreme Court that it is permissible to question a man about unconventional and unpopular political opinions that he may hold in order...
...this gang. This was made the basis of another motion for a new trial which was likewise denied by the trial judge and from this ruling another appeal is now pending in the Supreme Court; but once more the Supreme Court will be faced only with the extremely narrow question of whether or not it can say that the trial judge in derying the motion went so far as to abuse his discretion...
...seen, will men be content with the sober greys and browns and blacks of common use. No longer will the proud possessor of a "well turned calf" hide it in flapping cylinders, or at best set it forth to little advantage under plus fours. It is only a question of time, and of the advent of a man of spirit, before the black and white of evening dress gives way to silken hose and satin knee-breeches, vests of gorgeous brocade and cloaks of rainbow colors...
...this blind passion is itself one of the reasons why the original version is so moving. Does Mr. Robinson, apparently discarding it, and retelling the story in the terms of modern sensitivity succeed in making his account equally moving and convincing? This is the important question the reviewer must...