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Even if he does not change the thrust of decisions, Fortas, an extraordinarily subtle and precise analyst, is likely to improve their quality. One justified criticism of the Warren court is that the decisions, though progressive and humane, were often so poorly written and negligent of precedent that they were confusing to lawyers and judges in lower courts, who must look on them...
...Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, believe in strict judicial restraint, holding that the court exists not to make law but to interpret it rather strictly. And there are the judicial activists, who believe that many wrongs can be righted by following the broad mandate of the Constitution. The main thrust of the Warren court, particularly since Frankfurter's retirement in 1962, has been toward activism. This view, complains Justice John Harlan, a Frankfurter man, "is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle' and that this court should...
Jubilation Shouts. Meanwhile, the rhythm-&-blues strain was picking up new momentum, while post-Beatle rock charged off on its own creative path. The man who gave R & B its fresh thrust was a blind, Georgia-born bard named Ray Charles, one of the most hauntingly effective and versatile Negro singers in the history of pop music...
...Leadership, Old Politics. All along, Rockefeller has sought the nomination through the opinion polls, rather than through the party chiefs, who have always distrusted him. Yet he has done little to boost himself in the public standing. Now he is seeking to mobilize a popular thrust that will force the delegates to accept...
Alluding to his harsh treatment of Bobby in recent months, including a brutal thrust in this month's Esquire, Murray Kempton was contrite. "Our politicians are just too vulnerable to be thought of in the old callous way," he wrote. "We must see them in life as we would in the shock of death when we would be conscious only of the good in them. The language of dismissal becomes horrible once you recognize the shadow of death over every public man. For I had forgotten, from being bitter about a temporary course of his, how much I liked...