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| | washingtonpost.com: Jonathan Yardley |
 | | At 75 years of age McReynolds cut a handsome, imposing figure: "approximately six feet tall, very powerfully built, impeccably dressed, and with gleaming white, heavily starched shirt cuffs." But if ever appearances were deceiving, his were. |
| | McReynolds was mean (i.e., both ill-tempered and parsimonious), humorless, bigoted and (as the editors put it) "sarcastic, peremptory, and antagonistic." |
| | He is now entirely forgotten except, perhaps, by legal scholars who have attempted to make sense of his obtuse, perfunctory and occasionally ill-tempered opinions, but it is now clear that he deserves to be remembered as proof positive that high office does not confer humanity on those who hold it. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A9221-2002Jun6?language=printer (909 words) |
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