Word: antediluvian
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...just dandy," said Civil Rights Attorney Marian Edelman. "Just let him explain it to all those black kids who remain in segregated schools." Lumping his colleague with John Mitchell, Spiro Agnew and Strom Thurmond, Yale's Professor Fred Rodell wrote that "The dominant domestic policy of this antediluvian league is to liquidate the work of the Warren Court for civil rights and civil liberties and replace it with resegregation and law and order." The slight, urbane professor was unruffled. "I would lose my way intellectually," he says, "if I started thinking about the political impact of my positions...