Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: While many Americans are feeling rage, frustration and indignation at the Fortas affair [May 23], I believe many of us feel a more hurting emotion-that of disappointment. We don't all agree with the Supreme Court's decisions and rulings, however, most of us accept and abide by them because we believe that these men on this high court are "the epitome of honor among...
...Sir: I was strongly in favor of having Mr. Fortas confirmed as Chief Justice last year. In the light of recent events, I hoped even more ardently that he would step down...
...Sir: Alas, another slightly tarnished, slightly tattered liberal bites the dust. Abe Fortas, like the Smothers brothers, was a victim of the Establishment. Free and constructive speech, once valued as a privileged medium of criticism, is fast becoming a farcical political device of the haves. With the possibility of four liberal seats being vacated soon, the conservatives are chuckling. God help us if another Taft Era is the result...
...Sir: If the average, middle-class wage earner of America was as disgusted as I was after reading the account of "Hunger" [May 16], then I would imagine that it was one of the most self-damaging displays yet staged by those on welfare rolls. With reference to the "filth-encrusted" gymnasium, what is preventing the underprivileged from cleaning up the place? And as for the food stamps being "more trouble than they're worth," most of us have to exert ourselves to some extent to get food for our tables-some of us even have jobs. The biggest...
...Died. Sir Lewis Casson, 93, dean of Britain's theatrical knights who joined his wife, Dame Sybil Thorndike, in one of the great partnerships of the stage; of kidney disease; in London. Al ready well known when they married in 1908, Sir Lewis and Dame Sybil greatly enhanced their stature in hundreds of performances together, notably in Saint Joan and Eighty in the Shade...