Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear to anyone who reads the excerpts of his brilliant opinions why Holmes is so widely admired by legal scholars. But Novick is not afraid to point out the views held by the justice which would be considered dangerous and cruel today, even if they were not considered so then. For example, Novick describes Holmes' failure to support the voting rights of Blacks in the South. And he spends some time analyzing Holmes' most controversial--and perhaps even Fascist--opinion, which gave states the right to sterilize poor women who were institutionalized...
This was the opinion expressed to me at David Dinkins' victory party last week by one of his key campaign workers. He went on about the beautiful mosaic of races which Dinkins represents and about how New York will be reunited once again...
...fact is that the cultural world of the 1980s is split so deeply into two unequal realms--those who read the classics and those who don't--that the New York Times is assured of a chuckle by headlining an opinion piece "Aristotle, Tolstoy, Donald Duck, Beast Literature," even if the reader doesn't know that the last item is an allusion to Harvard's Literature and Arts...
...Opinion in government quarters was that the go-ahead for the march was an important signal to the security establishment that the excessive influence in enjoyed during the P.W. Botha era was on the wane," the newspaper said...
...Corporation answered calls for diversity in the composition of the 339-year-old body, which traditionally has been composed of seven white males. But the appointment of Hope, a Washington lawyer with close ties to the Republican party, can hardly be seen as a step towards diversity of opinion on the homogenous board...