Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silent Justices. Stewart keeps calling for action for the persuasive reason that only about 10% of U.S. defendants face felony charges. The other 90% are accused of misdemeanors, some of which carry sentences as long or longer than felonies. In Arkansas, for example, a misdemeanor can call for imprisonment of as much as three years. Yet an American Bar Foundation study recently reported that when it came to providing counsel for misdemeanants, "wide variations in practice existed from one state to another and from one county to another in the same state." And the highest courts of Arkansas, Florida...
...Connecticut case, Stewart had a third supporter, Justice William O. Douglas. Will a fourth appear? Justice Abe Fortas, for example, is the very lawyer who won the Gideon decision in one of his great pre-bench coups. As court watchers see it, the silent justices are mainly fearful of the effects of carrying out Gideon's admitted logic. Most misdemeanor cases now take only a few minutes; to require lawyers might inflate them into regular trials. The country has not even begun to provide enough public defenders for accused felons; adding misdemeanor cases might overwhelm...
...obscene? No, ruled the California District Court of Appeal in the case of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The French scatologist's literary fame "does not provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself has no redeem ing artistic merit. The film is devoid of theme, plot or character development...
...into human terms, these statistics testify to Americans' widening interests and expanding consciousness. Despite some prophets who consider the printed volume doomed in this age of instant communication, books are not only being read; in many cases they are more powerful weapons than ever. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring awakened the world to the dangers of the improper uses of insecticides and was a work of high literary quality as well. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any..Speed was the spark plug that started major safety reforms in the automobile industry. Particularly among the young, paperbacks...
...work through the campus placement service like other employers. But he refused to deal with nonstudents at all, shunned any discussions in which Non-Student Mario Savio, who tends bar at a near-campus student hangout when not agitating on campus, would take part, if only as a silent observer...