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...determined to keep pushing for his nominee. The President, who was said to be dismayed at the "partisanship and political savagery" of the anti-Bork campaign, made three speeches for his nominee last week. He also devoted his Saturday radio address to the Bork battle. "Tell your Senators to resist the politicization of our court system," Reagan urged listeners. "Tell them you support the appointment of Judge Robert Bork." Administration sources said the President is even considering a televised speech to the nation to call for Bork's confirmation. Declared Washington Lobbyist Tom Korologos, one of the White House...
...Constitution and should "find" rather than "make" law. Rights not specifically enumerated in the text of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, they argue, were not intended by the Founders and therefore do not exist; only the rights they mentioned really count. A good judge, consequently, must resist the temptation to create new ones...
Grooms is best when some menace is allowed to peep through the bonhomie, just as he is worst when he is most folksy. The Woolworth Building, leaning forward as though to resist some invisible gale, with old Frank Woolworth huddled like a crazed alchemist in its tower and a dragon made of dollar bills (the Spirit of Capitalism -- geddit?) waving its creaking neck from the roof, is quite a creation. But either way, one has the sense of an exaggerated rube's-eye view willfully prolonged. It reminds one that however "elitist" economy and wit may seem, vulgarity soon palls...
States, like people, can go mad. How is the world to react? First, be sure never to underestimate the crazy state. Second, resist...
...most part avoiding blind reverence, McKellen can't suppress a few instances of sickly sweet piety. As he takes one of his final departures from the stage, McKellen evidently can't resist the temptation to cast a wistful glance toward "Shakespeare's grave," the floorboards at the back of the stage which McKellen lovingly dusts at the beginning of the evening...