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...opposite ends of Atlanta's Peachtree Street, the white youth of the South stare across a gap within a generation. Airline stewardesses and young businessmen by the hundreds push into a converted warehouse called Uncle Sam's six nights a week for beer and music. They are the city's singles, decked out in bell-bottoms and hot pants, in from the fancy apartment complexes surrounding Atlanta. At midnight Friday and Saturday, they don Uncle Sam paper hats passed out by the management to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Dixie. When Lieut. William Calley...
Perhaps the best example of Fuld's reasoning was a 1957 opinion in which he re-examined the legal tradition of stare decisis (precedent decides). If it is argued, he wrote, "that stare decisis compels us to perpetuate a rule-out of tune with the life around us, at variance with modern-day needs and with concepts of justice and fair dealing-a ready answer is at hand. The rule of stare decisis was intended not to effect a petrifying rigidity, but to assure the justice that flows from certainty and stability. If, instead, adherence to precedent offers...
...little more passivity in the first act would pay larger dividends in the second.) There is also Ethel Woodruff in the potentially unrewarding part of the decrepit boarder. Miss Woodruff looks not unlike a pet rabbit who is murdered during the course of the drama; her pink eyes stare painfully ahead as if death were some shabby stranger waving in the faint distance, and I found her portrayal so credible that I often found it necessary to avert my eyes from the spectacle...
Between classes at Hollywood High, the outsized and unsightly girl known as "Barge" would sneak off to the girls' room and stare at herself in the mirror. She pressed her nose against the glass so she could look into her eyes without seeing the rest of her face. And she would murmur over and over again: "Some day you'll be beautiful. Some day you'll be beautiful...
...Sometimes you have to stare a kid down or take him into a corner to get things straight. But mostly it's just a question of listening. Usually people don't listen to what the kids have on their minds, and that's where the trouble starts." Bertrand said...