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MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept...
...often convicted on flimsy evidence. But juvenile courts, said Fortas, should be bound by the same rules as adult courts: "Neither the 14th Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone. Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court." A dissent last month from the 5-to-4 decision that labeled public drunkenness a crime may eventually prove to be the majority opinion. Criminal penalties," argued Fortas, "may not be inflicted upon a person for being in a condition he is powerless to change...
...whatever he does will make little difference, observes Yale Professor Alexander Bickel. But where he is in a minority of four, as he was last month in the public-drunkenness decision, the added power he has as Chief Justice might be enough to tip the scales and turn a dissent into a decision...
...recent pamphlet, Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience, Fortas spoke forcefully of the need for order?and the right of dissent. The law, he believes, must be a living thing, responsive to social reality and human needs...
...Lynd admits, and at times he makes American history read like one long protest march in which Jefferson, Thoreau and Staughton Lynd are fraternity brothers linked arm in arm. Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent. But it must be read with the proper skepticism due any partisan credo...