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...When Abe Fortas put out his "little book" on civil disobedience earlier this year, it was only a matter of time until someone from the Left would step forward to challenge him. That Howard Zinn was the one who did is fortunate, for Zinn's new book, Disboedience and Democracy, Nine Fallacies on Law and Order, reveals at once some of the best and some of the worst of contemporary radical thinking...
...volunteered to write a story for the paper, and after a great deal of snickering and behind-the-hand jokes I was assigned to cover the Abe Fortas Film Festival at the Law School. The Festival consisted of the seven films that were so obscene that they were only saved from destruction by Abe Fortas' vote on the Supreme Court. Somehow appropriate for the first night of Coed Week...
...entirely the issues of states' rights and freedom of speech. Since the Arkansas statute allowed the teaching of only the Biblical version of man's beginnings, ruled the court, it was clearly part of an "establishment of religion" by the state. The decision was written by Justice Abe Fortas, who spoke for the court for the first time since the congressional dispute over his nomination by Lyndon Johnson for Chief Justice. Said Fortas: "There is and can be no doubt, that the First Amendment does not permit the state to require that teaching and learning must be tailored...
...they both share an enthusiasm for an uphill enterprise: New York City is not notably hospitable to struggling young newspapers. The Tribune is getting some help, editorial as well as financial, from an advisory committee that includes Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, New York Times Associate Managing Editor Abe Rosenthal and Harper's Editor Willie Morris. Basically, however, the editors are counting on the fact that blacks and whites are concerned enough about one another to share a common newspaper...
...those who care, this year's sobering-up session goes under the name How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It's a fine musical and always has been, therefore a joy to behold. Frank Loesser's songs remain smart and fast, and the Abe Burrows-Jack Weinstock-Willie Gilbert book might have been written by bonafide comic geniuses. The story, it is true, proves nothing of anything, but for beauty of construction and quantity of laughs it can't be faulted...