Word: self-control
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Ultimately, order in the court rests on the dignity and self-control of the individual judge. Judge Hoffman allowed the Chicago Seven and their lawyers to goad him into displaying an obvious bias in favor of the prosecution. By contrast. Judge Murtagh so far has stoically put up with Panther provocations day after day, and even adjourned the trial just when the defendants wanted to commemorate the birthday of Panther Huey Newton. He had clearly studied the experience of colleagues-like U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Harold R. Medina, who says: "With these disruptive people, the more you kick them...
...self-control and our sorting out of licit and illicit actions and sanctions for our position are now much more difficult than in the civil rights movement, Phase I. When this Phase I came to an end with the assassination of Martin Luther King, it was especially meaningful to have the American flag fly alongside the UN flag and the Christian flag in the funeral procession in the streets of Montgomery because the States Rights banner of the Confederacy had been the overt or covert symbol of the opposition to integration then being enforced by the Attorney General...
...advises buyers to forget his own schemes and urges them to figure out their own. That way they may learn something about taste and design. Also about frustration. For though the pieces fit together easily enough, producing a balanced and pleasing arrangement is a true test of ingenuity and self-control. Says one new planetarian: "I couldn't stop. I worked until dawn and got so irritated I nearly screamed. Vasarely's paintings always looked like child's play to me. Now I understand all the long years of work behind them...
...into Boston and shec a sow-uh, see a show." (He was getting nervous again, damn it; he could feel his self-control evaporating like sweat.) "I can pick up the tickets on Monday. I'll call you Monday night and let you know what show it will be; I'm sure we'll have a real blast...
...into Boston and shee a sow--uh, see a show." (He was getting nervous again, damn it; he could feel his self-control evaporating like sweat.) "I can pick up the tickets on Monday. I'll call you Monday night and let you know what show it will b; I'm sure we'll have a real blast...