Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morrison communicates with his voice better than any but the best of the blues singers. Other rock singers must resort to other means: James Taylor opposes the personalness of his statement with the Appalachian flatness of his voice; Jagger relies on his onstage phyrotechnics, as does Rod Stewart; Joan Baez and Judy Collins are interpreters; Joni Mitchell catches you with words. Only Van Morrison can get to you purely with his voice...
Although the vote was officially 5-4, it was really closer than that. All nine Justices wrote opinions, and only two-Brennan and Marshall-declared that capital punishment per se is cruel and unusual. Douglas, White and Stewart all felt that the death sentences in the murder and two rape cases before the court had been applied "wantonly and freakishly," to use Stewart's words, because only a tiny minority of defendants convicted of similar offenses suffer the same fate. They left open the possibility, however, that a law would be constitutional if it called for capital punishment...
Shocked. Another example of these tensions occurred when Justice Stewart invited John Kerry of the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War to sit in the box reserved for guests at the court's public sessions. Justice Blackmun told Stewart that he was "shocked and appalled" by the incident...
...ironic that the Court's decision also precludes the possibility of investigative reporting which names names and pinpoints crimes. Such reports have often led to prosecution. The notion expressed by Mr. Justic Stewart in a dissenting opinion that the Court's decision "invites state and Federal authorities to undermine the historic independence of the press by attempting to annex the journalistic profession as an investigative arm of government" is well taken. Unfortunately, the Court's decision creates an atmosphere in which the likelihood of a reporter being able to obtain information which could weigh on an investigation is slim indeed...
...race worth running, even on a muddy track, and with tough competition. And suppose the rabbit were to go all the way-Woody Allen, dramatist. That just might be what Allen Stewart Konigsberg has been searching for all his life: the biggest one-liner of them...