In our house, the word of Louis B. Mayer became the law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
I grew up in a family where law was in the air we were breathing.
I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.