Word: wrote
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...friend, Williams Historian James MacGregor Burns, has urged Kennedy to do most of his campaigning from TV and radio stations, newspaper editorial offices and well-policed arenas. Wrote Burns in the New York Times...
...names were gathered during a six-month Star investigation that included interviews with some 100 madams, prostitutes and witnesses. In assembling its list, the paper accumulated canceled checks, hotel records and sworn statements verified by polygraph tests. The purpose, Star Editor Stephen Isaacs wrote in a front-page apologia, was "to expose the hypocrisy of public persons performing illegal acts that they themselves have made illegal or have jurisdiction over...
...Pocket Harry, however, turned out to be anything but. During the summer, he disappeared into the library of the Mayo Clinic, where he had once been general counsel, to research the medical aspects of abortion. After he emerged, he wrote a broad opinion declaring that abortion, at least in the first trimester, was a matter for a woman and her doctor, not the state, to decide. That was hardly the reasoning Burger had hoped for. The Chief eventually added a cryptic concurring opinion arguing that the court's decision did not sanction ''abortion on demand...
...with parental authority over children," says Yale's Robert A. Burt. "Burger makes a point of saying that these are good strict parents who do not take welfare." While Earl Warren was skeptical of traditional authority, Burger is usually respectful of it. But he can be unpredictable: he wrote the first Supreme Court opinion (Reed vs. Reed in 1971) in the line of cases giving women constitutional protection against discrimination...
...held up Beethoven's sonatas as the supreme models of craftsmanship. The Columbia LPs conclude with a 1932 recording of him conducting his own orchestration of some Schubert dances-a gesture of homage that was not unusual for him. What passed for classicism in his own day, he wrote in one of the letters quoted by the Moldenhauers, ''emulates the style without knowing its meaning . . . whereas I (and Schoenberg and Berg) endeavor to fulfill this meaning-and it remains eternally the same-through our means.'' Webern's meaning may still elude...