Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice may appease the port. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, once that the court took quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of different people who helped stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Good evening. Tonights landmark cases, 1960 fives griswold v. Connecticut, with a seven to two decision, the justices in this case establish a constitutional right to privacy. Its set in motion the expansion of privacy rights that continue till today over the next several decades. To give you a sense of continuing importance in our society, we put together a short video that is a modernday reference to the grizzle case. There is wild v connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy in the constitution i agree with the griswold v. Connecticut that marital privacy extends to contraception griswold v. Connecticut griswold v. Co
Portrait of the Dying Edith Schiele, by Egon Schiele, 1918. Wikimedia Commons.
Let’s begin with Egon Schiele’s elbows: the Austrian artist’s swollen left elbow bent over his head in a gesture of support, the right drawn across his face, almost directly under his nose. Here, in his 1910 painting
Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), rendered in muddy browns and sickly yellows, Schiele’s limbs look withered, his joints too pronounced. His elbows frame his face, drawing attention to one arched brow and a glowing reddish eye (a feature made even more striking by the repetition of its color and shape in nipples, genitals, and navel). Elbows direct arms that appear severed; his left hand disappears behind unruly hair, and his right arm seems to disintegrate below the joint. He looks close to what the art critic Julius Meier-Graefe described six years prior as the New Vienna, works of art that showed figures who were “shockingly thin, weak of bone and precociously diseased.”