Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...colors with a minimum of activity inside the frame. The constant purifying of the medium leads to the dilemma of what can come next. Frank Stella, a particularly inventive artist, has opened painting in a new direction by changing the traditional shape of the canvas. In the process of experiment, his paintings have led him beyond the rectangular frame to shapes of triangle, rectangle, and circle...
...have not endeared Douglas to conservatives, his opinions have often pointed the way to historic advances in American jurisprudence. Save for Douglas, who joined his lonely dissents for years, Hugo Black might never have swung the court to incorporating almost all of the Bill of Rights into the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, thus protecting persons from improper state as well as federal action. Writing for the majority in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), Douglas defined a "right of privacy" that forbade state bans on the use of contraceptive devices by married couples. That right is now emerging...
...considered impeaching Judges Haynsworth or Carswell, despite the criticism that barred them from the Supreme Court. One reason is the need for judicial independence: federal judges are deliberately appointed for life and the Constitution restricts the grounds for impeachment to "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." The process requires a majority vote in the House, followed by a trial and two-thirds vote for conviction in the Senate. Since 1789, only nine federal judges have been finally impeached and eight tried before the Senate. Four of the eight were acquitted, including the only impeached Supreme Court Justice...
...disease-coal workers' pneumoconiosis, in proper medical terminology. "Black lung" is just that: a lung so clogged with the steady accumulation of coal particles that it no longer functions. When both of a miner's lungs are coal-black and completely clogged, they stop functioning, and he dies. The process, being cumulative, is slow and agonizing. The U. S. Public Health Service estimates that 125,000 miners-active and retired-are afflicted with black lung: and admits that the figure may be conservative, because reports vary in accuracy from state to state...
...think this has been a rational process on our part. We have come to our conclusion slowly and painfully. We have lost confidence, because we do not believe any longer that these institutions are reformable...