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...consider this merely an honor to me personally, but a tribute to the discipline, wise restraint, and majestic courage of the millions of gallant Negroes and white persons of good will who have followed a nonviolent course in seeking to establish a reign of justice and a rule of love across this nation of ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin L. King Wins Nobel For Nonviolence | 10/15/1964 | See Source »

REMINISCENCES, by Douglas MacArthur. The grand strategist concentrates on World War II, the occupation of Japan, and Korea. The generosity and wisdom that characterized his leadership in the reconstruction of Japan are told with restraint, his firing by Truman in Korea as bitterly as if it had happened yesterday. A good writer, MacArthur comes through as a proud, realistic and yet oddly romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 9, 1964 | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...bent on destroying big business and conservatives accused of old-fashioned economics. No longer is the Court derided as a collection of nine old men too fragmented in their opinions to be relied upon to set national standards. The present split is between those who believe in "judicial restraint"-men who feel that real power should reside with elected officials and that the Court may eventually destroy itself by assuming too much-and so-called "judicial activists"-those who insist that the far-ranging provisions of a great Constitution have never yet been fully applied to American life and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: The Limits That Create Liberty & The Liberty That Creates Limits | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

What's Reasonable? Black was often in hot opposition to his social friend and judicial enemy, Justice Frankfurter, who believed that "judicial restraint" required judges to defer to administrators and legislators as being more expert and closer to the public will. Unwise policies should be corrected at the ballot box, Frankfurter argued; it is neither democratic nor efficient for nine lifetime judges to issue rigid orders about matters best left to elected compromisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: The Limits That Create Liberty & The Liberty That Creates Limits | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...process is interpreted with sensitivity and restraint by Director Irvin Kershner. Actress Ure, who in private life is Mrs. Shaw, manages to be both solidly female and delicately feminine as Mrs. Coffey. And Actor Shaw, known mostly for the stage roles he has played (The Caretaker) and the novels he has written (The Sun Doctor), is Ginger to the life. Brash, frightened, cunning, confused, sentimental, self-indulgent, weak but somehow also fundamentally decent and lovable, Ginger as Shaw sees him is both an individual and a type, an image of the child that is the father (and sometimes the undoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mick Micawber | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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