Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From a news story on faculty opinion, quoting Professors Samuel Beer, William Schneider, Ernest May, James Q. Wilson, Raoul Berger, Graham T. Allison Jr., and others...
...that Watergate has again made impeachment a viable alternative to suffering through four years of presidential misrule and misconduct, we are lucky that so able a man as Raoul Berger has taken it upon himself to allow impeachment a full and serious scholarly study. His judgments, and the sound reasoning that lies behind them, will be of the utmost value to those charged with the responsibility of deciding whether to impeach the President--if and when that decision becomes necessary...
Harvard Law Historian Raoul Berger, 72, writes persuasively that the definition was meant to be narrower. Berger is the author of a timely new book, which he hears is being photocopied all over Washington-Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (Harvard University Press; $14.95). "Maladministration," he found, was proposed by one of the Framers as grounds for impeachment, but was dropped after James Madison complained that "so vague a term will be equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the Senate." Instead, the term "high crimes and misdemeanors" was substituted, and Berger shows that its meaning at the time...
...Raoul Berger, Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History, told the Senate subcommittees investigating President Nixon's use of executive privilege Thursday that Congress is the "superior power...
...audience outside his mental amphitheater, where he performs imaginary operations on various members of the human race. Apart from his obsessive need to "reexamine all human action as animal" for his audience. Berners is attempting to justify himself before his God and his "needle-crucified" son, Raoul, who functions as a sort of Christ figure. Raoul's disappearance has forced his father to reassess his own life in terms of his childhood religion (the Protestantism of the Berne fathers) and a strange breed of reverse-Darwinism. Perversely apprenticed to the "monkey-man," he has come to view young people...