Robert M. Spire: A Loving Memory
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Authors
Shugrue, Richard E.
Issue Date
1995
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28
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|Bob Spire, a good man, died while in the midst of yet another consuming challenge.|This man, courageous in illness as he was in life, was a lawyer's lawyer, a respected leader of the bar, a thoughtful public servant. He was so much more than most and is deserving of our tribute, not because he moved graciously among the great of his time; but because he moved graciously among the humble.|Justice Felix Frankfurter, responding to a boy who had asked how to prepare to be a lawyer, replied that no one can be a truly competent lawyer unless he is a cultivated man. Among the challenges for such a person, the great jurist declared, is the cultivation of the imaginative faculties by reading poetry, seeing great paintings and listening to great music...
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28 Creighton L. Rev. 15 (1994-1995)
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Creighton University School of Law