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...Peace James R. Ayers had threatened him with a pistol. And Emerald Cunningham, 11, a polio victim who could not run, added that Ayers had chased her, grabbed her dress, pulled her down, kicked her, put a pistol to her head, and warned: "If you bring your black ass back to the white school, I'll blow your brains...
...irrationally hostile. It was as if the uncontested elections of the old Solid South-the kind that kept the Negro down for so long-had become Harlem's ideal of democracy. Negro Author (Manchild in the Promised Land) Claude Brown, an old friend of Meredith, called him "an ass, an absolute ass." Said Jackie Robinson, a Republican and a civil rights moderate: "No self-respecting Negro should have involved himself in this thing." The Amsterdam News, the Negro weekly, bannered: NEGRO REPUBLICANS OUTRAGED. In Harlem there was open talk of assassination-and in view of the 1958 attempt...
...enemies and convert them by that noble gesture into saints." Describing Wilson's 1919 cross-country campaign to plead his case for a League of Nations, the authors observe: "One may be sure that in his unconscious, when he boarded the train he was mounting an ass to ride into Jerusalem...
Terror is a sly and stylish send-up of costume chillers as well as of that silly ass with the deerstalker and the magnifying glass. Scriptwriters Derek and Donald Ford develop a delightfully nasty notion: why,not pit the most famous Victorian detective against the most notorious Victorian criminal-lack the Ripper. The confrontation contains some bloody-awful picture possibilities, and Director James Hill (Born Free) has the wit to explode them as he exploits them. The bloodiest, of course, are presented by those scenes in which the Ripper, swathed in the sort of corpse-grey fog the last century...
...held beliefs and passionately felt responses to experience." Not at all incidentally, good schooling should also provide "an escape from boredom" and "lead us to laugh in the face of heaven or hell. Education should teach us to play the wise fool rather than turn us into the solemn ass...