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Miller's lawyers tried to dig deeper: they argued that the First Amendment protects card burning as "symbolic speech," and they urged the court to apply Justice Holmes's famous dictum that mere words cannot be punished unless they create "a clear and present danger that they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Burning Words, Yes Burning Cards, No | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

But Finley may have lost contact with his boys, just as students in his course say that he has lost contact with them. That is, "the nut from Topeka" is more the creation of his willful imagination than a reality. To achieve color and unity in his perceptions, Finley tends...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: John Finley | 2/21/1967 | See Source »

Secondly, to think that any "community person" is going to look upon the willful discarding of one's sole protection against the draft as anything but stupid and suspicious is absurd. Even if they don't realize the manifold implications for themselves and their sons, how can they be expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Communist Youth Club on the Draft | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Morbid Procrastination. The jury convicted Sheller for willful cheating. But while he was on bail appealing his six-month sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a key decision (U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: You Have to Be Insane Not to Pay Taxes | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

By contrast, said Black, the Florida law's words, "malicious and mischievous," narrowed its scope to one offense: willful trespass. Not only were the students guilty of just that, he said, but there was "not a shred of evidence" that the sheriff objected to their protest for any reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: The Test That Wasn't a Test | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

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