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...area flogging a book titled "Abduction. " He is accompanied by three or four "alien abduction" fantasizers. He claims to be a distinguished "Harvard University Psychchiatrist." Is this true? If so can you explain how your University can rationalize the maintenance of this ignorant charlatan on the teaching staff? Ray Blessin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Mack for Real? | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...tell them that the whites at the courthouse have refused to tell him where the father has been taken, he quickly cautions Rebecca, "Let us not take in bitterness, for God works in mysterious ways. We brought nothin' into this life and we take nothin' out." "Is that a blessin', Reverend," she retorts, asking a question blacks should have asked themselves a long time ago. Tyson's confrontation with the Reverend is just one of several scenes in which her performance is both evocative and dramatic. Ritt has the ability to flush a flood of emotion from his actors...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee, | Title: Depression Life in the South | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...kind iv society f r th' previntion iv croolty to money." Mr. Dooley deplored the jingoism of the Spanish-American War: "Whin we plant what Hogan calls th' starry banner iv freedom in th' Philippines an' give th' sacred blessin' of liberty to th' poor, downtrodden people iv thim unfortunate aisles-dam thim-we'll larn thim a lesson. We can't give ye anny votes because we haven't more thin enough to go around now, but we'll threat ye th' way a father shud threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Montaigne with a Brogue | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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