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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour.(Brief Article)

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From: Nieman Reports
Date: 19991222
Author:CARROLL, WALLACE

... One day when I was with the Washington bureau of The New York Times, our Supreme Court reporter, Anthony Lewis, came in with a story that he thought would require an unusual touch. The "story," as he saw it, lay not in the majority opinion but in an unusual dissent by Justice Black. So after we talked it over, he wrote a story which, after recording the majority opinion in the first paragraph, went on something like this:

"In a passionate and despairing dissent, Justice Hugo Black rejected the majority opinion."

Somehow or other this sentence escaped the copy desk ...

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