Word: even
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...other. I regard Dickens as one of the great child psychologists. Fagin, for example, was very clearly an evil man. But the Artful Dodger is a human being in every sense of the term. He's not alienated, because he has had dealings with someone who is somebody, even though he's corrupt. The important thing is to be brought up by somebody. Before we worry about who it is, let it, please God, be somebody. It is very important for a child that there be a person on the other end of the seesaw, and that each...
...point during the contempt hearings, anarchy erupted. Three raucous defendants hurled a flag at the bench and screamed: "That's the flag that ought to be there next to you-the Nazi flag!" The disrupters even tore up their contempt citations...
...innocence." Some legal observers questioned the necessity of a mistrial. Boldt could have continued the trial with the defendants in custody or awaiting the start of their contempt sentences. It was never clear that the jury had been prejudiced by the defendants' absence from the courtroom. Some jurors even expressed disappointment that they had not been able to see the trial through...
...Even so, the judge did precisely what Judge Julius Hoffman was criticized for not doing in the similar Chicago Seven conspiracy trial last year. Instead of nailing the defendants for contempt after the trial, as Hoffman did, Boldt acted at once. As for the defendants, if their appeals fail, they variously face from six months to a year in jail to ponder their courtroom manners...
...heads. At Evans' trial, a Georgia prisoner testified that he had heard one of the murder defendants say: "If it hadn't been for that dirty son of a bitch Alex Evans, we wouldn't be in this now." The trial judge admitted this hearsay evidence, even though Evans had no chance to cross-examine the man who was supposed to have made the remark...