Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Smith is not alone. During the 1970s, a record 24 federal district and circuit court judges (of more than 600) stepped out of their robes, compared with eight in the '60s and seven in the decade before that. The trend has brought warnings from the legal establishment that the nation's treasured federal bench is in danger of losing its luster. Observers fret not only about the increased number of departures but also about the erosion of morale among those who remain. An equally distressing, although incalculable effect is the possible decrease of top candidates for judicial openings...
...60s, conservatives usually grouped together to fight single issues, without any organizational network or institutionalized funding...
...General Election stirred up a wind of realization that the "New Right" is upon us. Actually, this conservative faction of political independents is not a novelty, but was born in the late '60s out of a growing and passionate resentment of hyper-liberalism...
...story of Jonah Levin unfolds on two levels, one of his career and the other of his marriage. An anti-war folk singer who had one big hit song in the '60s, he has since formed a band that tours small clubs and concert halls, playing a lyrical brand of soft rock similar to Paul Simon's more recent works. He yearns for and works to draw a larger following, but his devotion to his work, including weeks at a time spent on the road, has nearly destroyed his relationship with his wife and young son. The movie jumps back...
...Lebanon, Mo. Aunt Sally (Mary Carver), wooed and won in Wilson's romantic drama, Talley's Folly, has come back 30-odd years later to scatter her late husband's ashes. On hand are some of the walking wounded of the intoxicant wars of the '60s...