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...more immediate impact also is probable: the professional competence of the court will decline. Whatever the differences in their conclusions-and they were many-Justices Black and Harlan were the court's intellectual pillars, sustaining reputations for judicial integrity, dignity and tight reasoning through some of the court's most turbulent years. Combining half a century of service on the bench, they cannot be replaced by any pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach...
The education continued first as a social one--complete with lessons in fencing and facial exercise--and later as intellectual and moral apprenticeship. The instructions were sometimes hard and dry, but the relationship between father and daughter was full and warm. To Mary, Pound "tried to express more with his...
At 55, David Douglas Duncan is one of the greatest photojournalists alive, the Hemingway of a profession that, in its strenuousness and immediacy, cannot have Prousts. "Have camera, will travel" is its motto and its boast. In the last 30-odd years, much of that time working for LIFE, Duncan...
Restaurants in Rome offered an improvised menu for Americans unable to buy lire: a fat sandwich and a Coke for $1. When the unofficial rate for Swiss francs sank to 3.25 per dollar, one hotel manager in Montreux took his guests' home addresses and promised to send them refunds...
That may be fine for men, the moral condemnation continues, but prostitution nonetheless degrades and abuses women, particularly poor women. Certainly there was once a time when, as Shaw wrote in Mrs. Warren's Profession, society was "underpaying, undervaluing, and overworking women so shamefully that the poorest of them...