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...year-old Orange-Nassau line. Closely sheltered, she led so desperately lonely a life that she once admonished one of her dolls, "If you are naughty, I shall make you into a queen, and then you won't have any other little children to play with." Null & Void. In her solitude, she developed a faith so intensely personal that whenever her English governess insisted on praying with her, she wrote: "I declared the prayer null and void." She was an imperious little girl. One morning, when she knocked at her mother's bedroom door and was asked...
Joan Baez is professionally lost, unilaterally unhappy to the point that her life might be a void were she ever-perish the thought! -to find happiness. She is a believer without a faith...
...effervescence there were many students who realized that their political ideals could best be effected within the political process. Had Mr. Roberts paid some attention to such groups as the Young Democrats and Young Republicans during the period in which his heroic radicals were groping in their self-created void, he might have been less "astounded" at the "spectacle" of students doing the necessary if unexciting tasks of political campaigning...
Last week, after years of careful planning, a group of Manhattan dealers and collectors announced that the void had been filled. Turning themselves into a board of trustees for a new Museum of Early American Folk Arts, they acquired and will soon occupy quarters on West 53rd Street, near the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In a dramatic sendoff, the new museum also opened a choice first exhibition in the Exhibit Center of the TIME & LIFE Building, two blocks away. If there was one fault with the show, it was this: it would...
...this was a constitutionally footless line of argument. The old states' rights doctrine that a state can interpose its authority so as to void a federal law within its own borders was struck down long ago -pragmatically by the Civil War and legally by decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1932 Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, speaking for a unanimous court, declared it to be "manifest" that a state Governor could not invoke his powers to infringe anyone's rights under the Federal Constitution. In the Little Rock decision in 1958, the Supreme Court handed down...