Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The unit set designed by John Wright Stevens is a curtained belvedere that does not lend itself well to the different locations called for in the play. Most of the Brandeis stage is unused, since the set is placed so far forward. The playing area is unduly shallow and so...
But in the past few years, conservative votes by the four-man Nixon bloc have become less certain. For the first time this year, splits in the Nixon bloc happened more often than not. Only 36% of the time did the quartet vote together, as against 67% last year and...
Far from enjoying any special free-speech privilege, broadcasting comes under special restrictions, and the court emphatically affirmed this on its final day last week. In the so-called "seven-dirty-words case," the four Nixon appointees voted together to support an opinion by Stevens. In the 5-to-4...
The decision stirred a new round of hand wringing by press defenders, but the outcome may not be as grim as it looks. Only three Justices (Burger, Rehnquist and White) refused to give the press any kind of special access. Stewart argued that the press could bring along its tools...
The key swing vote in the decision, the man squarely in the middle, was Powell, who was never that sure he wanted to be a judge in the first place. Quiet, scholarly, wistful and widely respected for his legal acumen, he agreed in part with two different groups within the...