Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broad Language. Though such views have not endeared Douglas to conservatives, his opinions have often pointed the way to historic advances in American jurisprudence. Save for Douglas, who joined his lonely dissents for years, Hugo Black might never have swung the court to incorporating almost all of the Bill of Rights into the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, thus protecting persons from improper state as well as federal action. Writing for the majority in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), Douglas defined a "right of privacy" that forbade state bans on the use of contraceptive devices by married couples. That...
...famous Casals sense of injustice asserted itself even when he was a child. Financed by the royal family of Spain, young Casals auditioned for the Conservatory of Music in Brussels, and after being rudely taunted by the cello professor for claiming an astoundingly broad repertory, stunned both professor and students with his playing. When the professor then eagerly asked Casals to join the class, Casals snapped: "You were rude to me, sir. You ridiculed me in front of your pupils. I do not want to remain here one second longer." He left for Paris, forfeiting the royal family...
...said, I think it becomes more and more a question of degree and I feel that, on our board, you can find men who bring this broad background to General Motors and who do so in the interests of General Motors and its stockholders equally. And I think those are the people who can best serve our stockholders and the company. The fact that they have done so is demonstrated by where we are today...
...Government orders are still doing well. RCA's first-quarter computer sales were up 20% from a year earlier. Those sales, to be sure, reflect orders placed a year ago, and Wall Street expects a slowdown in orders soon. But that has not occurred yet on any broad scale. Some businesses, in fact, are increasing rather than reducing their orders because of the developing profit squeeze; they hope that new, faster and more sophisticated computers will cut costs...
...French foreign minister in Marseille in 1934. But Jancsó has relatively little interest in the incident itself or in the characters of the people who instigated it. He is, instead, obsessed with illustrating the forces that drove the individuals involved. His camera sweeps about his actors in broad brush strokes, imprisoning them in an enormous, existential fresco...