Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis, a Detroit acquaintance of Fight Fan Hoffa, turned up as a visitor to the courtroom. Every now and then Joe helpfully left his spectator's seat to chat with Hoffa at the defense table. The Justice Department countered by bringing in a Negro attor ney to sit at the prosecution table, but he was no match...
...particular, the Watkins case. Americans need a new set of definitions on such matters as what is disloyalty and what is un-Americanism (the latter probably undefinable). I look for your Supreme Court to provide these badly needed definitions. The U.S. has little to fear from "creeping liberalism." Sit back, relax, enjoy it. A little freedom never hurt anyone. Perhaps, after all, agonizing reappraisals, like charity, should begin at home...
Your July 1 cover story, "The Temple Builder," provides a record and an insight to the thinking of our Supreme Court which every literate American should read. The court's recent decisions are terrifying. Did Khrushchev and Chou En-lai sit in on those historic decisions? If not, they were well represented (except for Tom Clark, who recognized the "clear and present danger...
...sit and talk with executives of big corporations, you find that as individuals they care about a hell of a lot of things that are never reflected in the programs they sponsor. There is often a complete divorcement between the individual and his corporate personality. I'm not saying that his primary job is to educate, but the sponsor cannot escape his responsibility . . . for contributing to the level of taste...
...might be helpful," said Murrow, "if those who control television and radio would sit still for a bit and attempt to discover what it is they care about. If television and radio are to be used to entertain all of the people all of the time, then we have come perilously close to discovering the real opiate of the people...