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...Frankfurter was the court's only Jewish member, and political doctrine demanded that his successor be a Jew). Besides, as one knowledgeable New Frontiersman candidly put it, "Goldberg wanted the job badly.'' It is always risky to predict the ideological direction a man may take when he dons the robe. Old New Dealer Frankfurter, for one. came to stand as a judicial conservative, in the sense that he tended to interpret the Supreme Court's powers narrowly (see box). But on his record, Goldberg would seem likely to make the court lopsidedly liberal. Only a few months ago, New Frontiersman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Old Order Chcmgeth | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

Moses Barton strides into Cockpit Centre wearing a blue turban, white robe, and carrying a shepherd's staff. He announces to the startled Jamaican Negroes that he has come as a messenger of God "to break the neck of cowardice and slavery" and lead them out of bondage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black God | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...Strasbourg in Transition, won the coveted Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for 1958. Ford has also written on seventeenth-century alignments of the French Robe and Sword and contributed to The Diplomats: 1919-1939. His most recent work was "The World of lightenment" in Columbia University's 1961 publication Chapters in Civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franklin Ford New Faculty Dean Appointment Ends Long Search | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

...Sutherland tapestry-suffering perhaps from the great expectations built up over the years-is less obviously impressive. Christ in Majesty-presented in a billowing, almost feminine robe-seems lacking in majesty. But the tapestry is rich in arresting still lifes, and impressive as a modern success in a medieval art. It is 70 ft. high, 39 ft. wide, weighs more than a ton. Ten weavers of France's Pinton Freres spent four years copying every nuance of color and design marked out by Sutherland in his original 8-ft. by 4-ft. gouache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From the Ruins | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...Impresario Sol Hurok's business. Since 1958, he has imported five companies,† toasted the dancers with champagne and caviar at hotel rooftop parties, and sent them off to the vast American steppes to spread cheer and make money. Last week a shy girl in a flowered robe and korsetki (a kind of satin juniper) stepped to the footlights at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house and uttered the words "Miz Ukraini" (We are from the Ukraine). Sol had brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 6 for Sol | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

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