Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contest was judged by the Hon. Charles S. Bolster, the Rt. Rev. John Melville Burgess and Mrs. John A. Sullivan...
...choir's basses sounded a bit muddy in the Brahms, one could have no complaints about the Mozart. The Litaniae began with the most cheerful imaginable Kyrie eleison and soloists Melanic Adams and Judith Press, who, it is good to note, have moved up successfully from Gilbert and Sullivan to God. The truly fine singing of the evening was done by Florence Staplin, soprano; her certainty of intonation, breath control, phrasing, and tone quality should serve as a model for her fellow soloists...
Princeton owed its victory--and its rise from a four-team tie for fourth place--to the inspired foil fencing of Bill Hicks, who won 32 of his 33 bouts. John O'Sullivan(sabre) and Robert White(epee) also turned in high scores for the Tigers...
...took two further steps. It went out of its way to brand as unconstitutional the Sedition Act of 1798, which had levied heavy fines against anyone who uttered or printed "false, scandalous and malicious" statements against the U.S. Government or its officers. It also anticipated any ambition of Commissioner Sullivan's to revive his suit back home in Alabama. The Times may have been guilty of negligence in letting slip a few misstatements, said Justice William J. Brennan for the court, but it was not guilty of malice: "We consider that the proof presented to show actual malice lacks...
Justice Black went even farther. The Sullivan judgment, said he, offers "dramatic proof that state libel Taws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials. An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. I regret that the court has stopped short of this...