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Short Tether. Significantly shifting the burden of proof to censors, Justice William J. Brennan ruled that "the exhibitor must be assured by statute or authoritative judicial construction that the censor will, within a specified brief period, either issue a license or go to court to restrain showing the film." As for the judicial part of the process, Brennan suggested that it should take no more than three or four days...
...holds some promise, except that Director Sinatra and his scriptwriters goof away tension at every turn. A truce seems inevitable, since both camps are rent by internal strife and riddled with clichés. While Kuroki contends with a trigger-happy Buddhist, the American captain (Clint Walker) has to restrain a volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra...
Deeply believing that judges must give wide scope to the other, elected, branches of government, Frankfurter sought to restrain the exercise of judicial power. The picture he painted of the place of a judge in a free society was a complex and subtle one about which lawyers and judges will argue for generations to come, but it is already clear that Frankfurter's influence on the way Americans think about law has been wide and deep...
...Emancipation Proclamation in 1863--"slavery obscured by the niceties of complexity." In the third stage, which includes the Supreme Court decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of '64, segregation becomes illegal. That's where we are now. Legislation can't change the heart, but it can "restrain the heartless. It can't make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me--and that's pretty important too." (King understands there's a sort of sub-stage in here, a "de facto" stage in which civil rights pressure groups employ non-violent methods to make...
...born in Pontnewynydd, Wales, worked as a secretary for four years in the local foundry before winning a scholarship in 1956 to London's Royal College of Music. She was hired by the Zurich Opera in 1962 as a mezzo, but soon found she couldn't restrain herself from "singing top Cs and trilling." Zurich Conductor Nello Santi listened and forthwith pronounced her a soprano...