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Allow me to applaud your answer to Rev. Otis Moore [TIME, Letters July 8]: "Hate nobody-but keep your eyes peeled...
...amateurs didn't know everything about boxing, but they had plenty of fight. And that's what draws the crowds. Last week 19,216 noisy fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to boo and applaud the Golden Gloves's national finals. The fans saw plenty of the wild haymakers and weird grimaces which made good action shots for the photographers at the ringside (see cut). A few connoisseurs went for a special reason: to take a look at Negro Bob Foxworth, 22, touted as the coming Joe Louis...
...Japs in the audience-half of them women, most of them students and office workers-seldom applaud the recital of the Gettysburg Address; they are seldom sure, for that matter, whether Lincoln or Drinkwater wrote it. But afterwards many Japs slip backstage and tell the actors how much they admire the speech. Most Allied civilians who attend the show (the theater is out of bounds for the military) find it so long-winded that they duck out before the end. The only criticism they have voiced is that Lincoln's trousers are much too nattily creased. Accordingly, before...
Many North Carolinians applaud TIME for its item, "Two Governors," in the Jan. 7 issue. However, the comments are misleading. Almost any recent Governor of North Carolina might have done the same thing Governor Cherry did in commuting the sentence of a 14-year-old Negro boy from death to life imprisonment. We elect that kind of Governor. Tolerance, decency and humaneness are not so rare in North Carolina as TIME intimates...
Repentant Revolutionist. For the utterance of truth Wordsworth had a surprisingly modern experience. As a young man, he was an ardent revolutionist. The French Revolution was for him what the Russian Revolution was for a later generation. Unlike many later enthusiasts, Wordsworth was not content to applaud from the sidelines. He went to France and took a small post in the revolutionary government. In time he decided that revolutions can reform practically anything except man. So he became a philosophic conservative of the most unrepentant kind -the repentant revolutionist. For some. 50 years he sounded the emotional overtones of this...