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Brewer's: Proper Names used as Common Nouns
Crebillon = terrible. Dumas = imaginative Fénelon = fabulous. Le Sage = humorous. Molière = comic. Montaigne = thoughtful. Rabelais = unclean. Rousseau = amorous, Victor Hugo = incendiary…Brewer's: Thammuz
The Syrian and Phoenician name of Adonis. His death happened on the banks of the river Adonis, and in summer-time the waters always become reddened with the hunter's blood. (See Ezekiel…Walt Whitman: From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
From Pent-Up Aching RiversFrom pent-up aching rivers, From that of myself without which I were nothing, From what I am determin'd to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men, From…Walt Whitman: This Compost
This CompostPart 1Something startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I loved, I will not go now on the pastures to walk, I will not strip the clothes from my…Agostini v. Felton (1997)
Case SummaryA federal district court and Court of Appeals ruled against New York City, stating that the city could not have public school teachers provide supplemental instruction to…Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris (1989)
Case SummaryMorris and others who lived and voted in Brooklyn, the most populous borough of New York City, claimed that the method of electing members of the Board of Estimate violated the…Flast v. Cohen (1968)
Case SummaryA federal court ruled that Flast and the other plaintiffs did not have standing as taxpayers to challenge the use of federal funds for religious schools. “Standing“ is a legal…Printz v. United States (1997)
Case SummaryJay Printz, a law enforcement officer from Arizona, sued to challenge the constitutionality of the Brady Act provision that required him and other local chief law enforcement…Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Case Summary Allan Bakke filed suit after learning that minority candidates with lower qualifications had been admitted to medical school under a program that reserved spaces for “…Reno v. ACLU (1997)
Case SummaryIn 1997, a group of organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), challenged the “indecent transmission“ and “patently offensive display“ provisions of the…Trending
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