Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...electorate. Because a greater degree of understanding of candidates and issues is needed to cast a primary ballot, those who vote tend to be articulate, highly motivated, upper middle income citizens, who are usually more ideologically committed, whether to the right or to the left. Writes Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, former chairman of the FCC: "The current version of primaries turns the decision over to what, in a sense, is a new kind of political boss. A small handful of party activists dominate the primaries. The result is a process that tends to fragment rather than unify and to confuse...
Douglas was suspicious of the coercive power of Government. He anticipated the Miranda decision of 1966 by arguing, usually in dissent, that the criminally accused should have immediate access to a lawyer and the right to remain silent after arrest. He voted against letting the state use evidence obtained by "unreasonable search and seizure." Privacy was almost an obsession with him; in 1973 he said he was "morally certain" that the court's conference room had been bugged. In a famous 1965 decision striking down a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, Douglas stated that whether...
...young man, his ambition to become a lawyer led him to New York City. In 1922, at 24, Douglas boarded a freight train to shepherd 2,000 sheep East. He graduated three years later from Columbia Law School and migrated downtown to a Wall Street law firm...
...Money Is Freedom" seems to have been engraved on the family crest in Minsk. The older son (Brent Spiner), a lawyer, is making a boodle. He is also spending rather freely on double martinis in rapid sequence, and he smokes in chains. He later switches to jogging, a decision of grave dubiety. What he cannot seem to do is get his nose out of a book or newspaper to pay some loving concern to his Gentile wife (Chris Weatherhead) or provide some fatherly guidance to their two children. This pair, a nine-year-old boy (Eric Gurry...
...lawyer's younger brother (Mark Blum) is an unemployment fetishist with a yen for pot, coke and sex. His girlfriend (Carolyn Hurlburt) does mental-rehabilitation work and seems to be indesper ate need of it herself...