Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the heyday of the madrigalists four centuries ago has England seethed with so much native musical creativity as it does today. The British renaissance, which began half a century ago with Elgar and Vaughan Williams and continued with Walton and Britten, is currently upheld by a coterie of younger talents whose work is now beginning to make a worldwide noise. One of the most promising of the group and by far the best known, 31-year...
...against excessive zeal for reform. In the spirit of recent papal encyclicals on social affairs, it urged Catholics to be concerned with the eradication of "indignity, injustice and inhumanity" on the ground that "when one of us is denied justice, all are threatened." At the same time, the letter upheld the primacy of the spiritual over the secular and censured a kind of religious amnesia that has blotted out respect for past traditions...
...South Carolina's primaries so inflamed local whites that they stoned his house in Charleston, burned crosses on his lawn, and ostracized him from society. The judge stood firm and went on to argue in a 1951 opinion that school segregation per se is inequality -an idea later upheld in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling...
Dacey's lawyers appealed, but last October New York's Appellate Division upheld the lower court. In his lone dissent, Appellate Justice Harold A. Stevens wrote: "At most, the book assumes to offer general advice on common problems," and therefore was not an attempt to practice law. Moreover, said Stevens, the court's order was a violation of Dacey's right to free speech. Late last month New York's highest tribunal, the Court of Appeals, held 6 to 1 that Justice Stevens was right, voided Dacey's fine and abolished the ban. Said...
...state, with eight experts of its own, waged an equally impressive counteroffensive. The stage was a pretrial hearing for two college dropouts accused of possession of the drug with intent to sell. Last week, after consideration of the case for three months, Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro upheld the laws. In a 31 -page opinion that even pot lovers would have to admire for restraint and thoughtfulness, Judge Tauro carefully explained his conclusions...