Word: socializer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy for several years has avoided the liberal label. It is a designation that has fallen on hard times since the demise of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Congressional liberals once took pride in supporting vigorous Government action to solve the nation's economic and social problems. But although most Americans still favor a high level of Government services, the increasing cost, waste and bureaucracy surrounding these services inspire many citizens to oppose Government operations that do not directly benefit them. Moreover, many of today's disputes have gone beyond the classic liberal-conservative debate. In a conflict between environmental...
...reason for such fatalism is that American assassins have generally not been political foes whose acts might be anticipated but psychotics or social misfits who kill for bizarre and unpredictable reasons. Says Robert Delaney, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and an expert on terrorists: "The most frustrating thing is that you are dealing with a randomness. There is no knowing when, how or if." Or why or who. Researchers say that assassins in U.S. history have typically been short, white, unmarried men with mental disturbances dating from their childhood. True, but both attempts on Ford...
...even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must be applied to urgent social and moral dilemmas-abortion, the death penalty, obscenity, busing, reverse discrimination. The conferences provide a relentless test of conviction and reason; shallowness and bluffing are not long concealed. ''It is like being naked in a steam bath,'' Justice Felix Frankfurter once remarked...
...1960s, under Chief Justice Earl I Warren, the Supreme Court fashioned I a goad for social progress out of two 14th Amendment phrases-due process and equal protection of the laws-with specific application to civil rights and criminal law. Liberals praised the court for championing the rights of the traditionally powerless-blacks, the poor, criminal defendants. Others denounced it for excessive zeal and social meddling...
Burger's judicial philosophy is not easily discerned. He does not have a broad vision of the court as an instrument for social reform. Nor is he particularly concerned with "judicial restraint" or the limits of the court's power. Rather, observes Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis J. Hutchinson, "Burger votes the way he thinks a right-thinking person would vote. He applies middle-class values and his own common sense." The Chiefs opinion in Wisconsin vs. Yoder, which ruled that the state could not force Amish parents to send their children to school, is an example...