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Full of wounds, all in the breast. I did what I could, grandfather. More than I could, just as you directed. Now that the battle is over, I come to recline at your side, to become dust at your side, that the two of us may await the Final Judgment together...Grandfather, hello...
...privy Kalendar of the Ku Klux Klan, the code names for October, November and December are Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling. In this Year of the Klan 100, they may be Ruinous too. For whatever individual nemeses may await the Klan's various leaders during 13 weeks of public hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, daylight and logic are as lethal to the huggermugger mystique of the "invisible empire" as Lysol is to microbes...
...Spanish Civil War. Bayo's dedication reads: "To those who have died and are dying in the filthy dictatorial bourgeoise military oligarchic prisons in Latin America." The students spend from four weeks to a year learning about explosives, weapons and psychological warfare, then return home to await the proper time for action...
Like most young New York intellectuals of his day, Kazin considered himself a socialist. "I thought of socialism as orthodox Christians might think of the Second Coming," he says, "a wholly supernatural event which one might await with perfect faith, but which had no immediate relevance to my life." Like most of his friends, he spent much of his free time in passionate discussion of the decade's great storms: the Moscow purges, the rise of fascism, the Spanish civil...
...teasing game with Canadians. Every where he goes he talks in riddles about calling a new election-without ever quite saying it or setting a date. On a visit to Vancouver, he pointed out that an election would be impossible before the end of 1966, if he were to await results of an electoral redistribution now under way. "Do we want to begin our centennial year [1967] with an election?" he asked. "That could mean an election this fall," leaped a newsman. "You have a very succinct way of putting things," winked Pearson. A few hours later, he told...