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...much on trial as was the defendant. Relentlessly, Flowers and an assistant questioned each prospective juror, asking him whether he thought the white race superior to the Negro, whether he felt that any person like Mrs. Liuzzo who associated with Negroes thereby made herself inferior to other whites. Over vehement defense objections, Judge Thagard let Flowers get his answers. In short order, Flowers established that of 30 veniremen available for the jury, eleven felt that white civil rights workers were indeed inferior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Juries & Justice in Alabama | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...Absolutely Inconceivable." Dr. Marjorie Shearon, a vehement anti-Communist from Chevy Chase, Md., appeared as an unsolicited committee witness, declared that Fortas was once a member of the left-wing International Juridical Association, that "he has been significantly connected with Communists and Communist fronts over a considerable period of time," and that "his connections were neither trivial nor casual-and I doubt if they were innocent." Fortas replied that he may have joined the group while he was on the Yale faculty in the 1930s because "joining was easy in those days." But "to the best of my knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teh Supreme Court: Questions & Answers | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...rate, the outcry was notably less vehement than last year's storm over Queen Juliana's second daughter, Irene, 25. When Irene became engaged to Catholic Prince Hugo Carlos de Borbón y Parma, a dark horse pretender to the throne of hated Spain, Irene was forced by Parliament to renounce her claim to the Protestant Dutch monarchy. Last week the literary monthly De Gids suggested that Beatrix should do the same if she marries Von Amsberg, passing the succession to her next sister, Margriet, 22, who is engaged to a Dutch commoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Prince Watsisname | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...sorority girl chiding the Thresher for not publishing anything about sororities. But the issue reaches larger proportions eleswhere. At Wisconsin, a Campus Newspaper Student Committee is investigating inequities in the Wisconsin Cardinal; at Berkeley an organization called Students for University Truth purchases space in the Daily Californian for vehement tirades against the newspaper...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Sweeping Political Renaissance Transforming Nation's Colleges | 4/22/1965 | See Source »

Secondly, it is becoming ever clearer that, as Novelist Saul Bellow said not long ago, "polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art." The vast majority of writers, publishers and critics rejoice over the decline of censorship. While it permits the emergence of much trash, they feel that this is the necessary price for the occasional great work that might otherwise be taboo-for example, Nabokov's Lolita, a brilliant tour de force. But they concede that the new permissiveness paradoxically imposes a more difficult task on the writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW PORNOGRAPHY | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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