Word: temperance
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SYSTEMS of justice are being attacked throughout the world. They reflect the uneasy temper of the times that stir and shake the mind and spirit. This is an era we will not fully understand until it is over, but meanwhile we must cope with events, with a seeming weakening of some institutions and attacks on institutions. Of immediate relevance to us as lawyers is that gnawing doubt whether our system of justice, especially criminal justice, is sturdy enough to withstand the assaults which are leveled at it. Some say we must "crack down," that we must "smash" the challengers...
...must recognize that each of us must give up something to save the nation. 1 may have to pay more taxes. The corporate president may have to spend more on pollution control. The suburban resident may have to temper his racial prejudices. The wage earner may have to loosen up access to his union. We have it in us to be a better people. It is a matter now of summoning the will...
Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when he led the Manchester United eleven to their first European Cup championship and was named Footballer of the Year. At 5 ft. 9 in. and 150 Ibs., he looks like a sparrow in shorts next to the burly "hatchetmen" who triple-team him to cries of "Break the bastard's legs!" Best's revenge is "to make them feel so inferior they'll never want to play football again." He does it with speed, deception and an uncanny skill...
Casals had a blazing temper. He relates that when his manager cheated him during a tour of America in 1904, he seized the man, hurled him into the revolving doors of a hotel, and spun him around until the door broke and the culprit was catapulted into the street. "Of course I had to pay for the doors," writes Casals, "but I really didn't mind...
Look to the Lilies belongs to this sorry lot. Adapted from the 1963 film Lilies of the Field, which starred Lilia Skala and Sidney Poitier, the show is peculiarly ill-attuned to the temper of the present time. The musical presents a group of West German nuns relocated in the Southwestern U.S. They are trying to minister to Mexicans and Indians under the flinty, egocentric but spiritually incandescent will of their superior, Mother Maria (Shirley Booth). Into their midst comes a Negro on the lam, Homer Smith (Al Freeman Jr.). It is Mother Maria's conviction that Homer...