Word: theo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THEO. R. LEUTZINGER Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...sharpest thorns in East Germany's Communist hide is a 14-month-old underground organization directed from West Berlin. The Investigating Committee of Free Lawyers of the Soviet Zone was founded by Dr. Theo Friedenau, 39-year-old lawyer, who has a 500,000 East mark Communist price tag on his head. His organization of 3.000 East German lawyers, judges and public officials exposes Soviet zone perversions of justice and tries to frighten Communist officials by reporting their crimes to Friedenau in Berlin...
...Theo Hancock is a brash, engaging young Briton who invaded the U.S. two years ago with a fellowship to study art at Brown University. Instead of studying, Hancock produced it. Brown saw little of him; the 25-year-old artist hitchhiked about the East, painting watercolors of what he saw and exhibiting them in Boston, Providence and Manhattan. Then he drifted westward, still painting, and exhibited his land-and cityscapes and industrial scenes in Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Denver and San Francisco. Last week he opened in Los Angeles...
Nonsense, said Oliver, who was also a lawyer on the outside. "Socrates wasn't guilty in our eyes, but he was in Athenian eyes." Lawyer Oliver did admit, nonetheless, that Socrates had found "a new method of arriving at truth." "Aha!" cried Theo triumphantly. "If he arrived at truth, then he can't be guilty...
...Lawyer Theo seemed to have a bare majority on his side. The jury's vote: 7 to 6 in favor of Socrates. On whether Socrates was right in refusing to skip town, no vote was taken. Quipped Moderator Hagerty: "The purpose here is not to free someone, but to free your minds." Added Hagerty: "A beautiful discussion...