Word: slob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resorted over the years to abrasive attacks on members of his dicipline, and especially on judges. Whether Judge Haynsworth is or is not sufficiently qualified by character and learning to be a member of our highest court is yet to be determined. But, certainly, he is not "slob" and not a "mediocrity." In any event, it was a gratuitous detente for the professor to make the matter of Judge Haynsworth's qualifications the occasion for a wholly uncalled-for assault on such eminent scholars as Professor Freund and Judge Friendly...
...Thank God for little favors. Hayns worth could have been a "mediocre slob from Yale...
...Although you quoted me quite accurately as calling Judge Haynsworth a "mediocre slob" [Aug. 29], you did not add, as I did, that his appointment to the Supreme Court, in preference to such as Professor Freund or Judge Friendly, pleased me no end because Haynsworth, as a not quite bright conservative will have little or no influence on the court or the law, save with his own vote...
...quoted Professor Fred Rodell (whoever he is) of the Yale Law School as referring to Haynsworth as a "mediocre slob." May I ask that if you insist on quoting from representatives of such institutions you request them to do a little upgrading of their faculties? There are many of us who are not always impressed or intimidated by the Ivy League, and we still appreciate gentlemen who have differing points of view. It doesn't take much sense to see that the "mediocre slob" statement is much more a reflection upon the one who said it than upon Judge...
...Slob Area. Exhorting the Illinois chapter of NATO, Campaign Co-Chairman Henry Plitt proclaimed that "the monster can destroy every movie house in the U.S. When the marquee lights go out, it doesn't take long for the small community to become a slob area, a slum." NATO also warns that pay-TV puts traditional TV in jeopardy and "discriminates drastically against the poor...