Word: contempts
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...specialist in subversive activities, performing ably and energetically as a staff lawyer on such cases as the William Remington perjury trial, the Rosenberg trial and the big New York trial of top Communist leaders. He had also given auspicious evidence of a trait that still rankles his associates: contempt of all but the top boss. In 1950 his boss, U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol, made 23year-old Roy Cohn his confidential as sistant...
...regarded as a renegade, there was bitter resentment among men who stayed on. Others charged that he was trying to forestall a supreme court probe of charges of irregularities in his conduct as governor. The Assembly's 85-man presidium snapped: "The presidium views with utter contempt K. C. Wu's action and utterances, which it considers as giving aid and comfort to the Communists, inasmuch as he is . . . in the sanctuary of a foreign country, smearing and attacking the government [with] malicious propaganda...
...that defamatory criticism of educational institutions--including the quality, character and method of their instruction--is permitted since they are institutions in which the public has a "substantial interest." But it also provides that such defamatory criticism, that is criticism which holds the institution up to "ridicule, hatred or contempt," must be based on true facts. The burden of truth lies with the defendant in the libel suit...
...despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism gave his pupil such a contempt for narrow scholarship that Nate told his classmates after graduation, "If you ever catch me around here again, you can shoot me." He tried to get a job in publishing, but wound up teaching at the Riverdale Country School for boys, just outside Manhattan. There, during the long hours...
...witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to incriminate him. He can be required, on pain of contempt punishment, to disclose enough to show a real possibility that an answer to the question will tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly, this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril...