Word: bonde
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Horace Julian Bond is a young man who likes to speak his mind. As it hap pens, some of the things that Bond, 26, a Negro pacifist and civil rights worker, has on his mind -sympathy for draft-card burners and extreme opposition to the war in Viet Nam - proved highly unpalatable to the Georgia house of representatives. Twice this year house members voted against allowing him to sit among them as the duly elected member from Atlanta's 136th Legisla tive District...
Last week the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Georgia house violated Bond's First Amendment guar antee of freedom of speech by refusing to grant him his seat. The right to make such statements as Bond's "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card" would not be denied a private citizen, wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren in the court's decision. All the more should they not be denied a legislator, who has, in fact, a duty to speak out on controversial questions so that his constituents can know where he stands...
That is a duty that the boyishly handsome Bond (he once modeled for Royal Crown Cola posters) is unlikely to shirk. The son of the dean of Atlanta University's school of education, Bond was publicity director of the militant Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee until last September, and has been an articulate advocate and organizer of the New Left. For much of the past year, he has supported his wife and three children by writing and lecturing, now has a book in the works on his rebuffs by the legislature. Title: A Georgia House Is Not a Home...
...Poppy Is Also a Flower is another James Bond movie made without James Bond, and many will wish it had been filmed without film...
...sees capitalist corruption symbolized amid the Roman ruins by "powdered pederasts," "urinating whores," and a "society lady" swooning with delight as a gigolo pulls off her nylon panties. Then again, he takes a good-humored dig at the Western preoccupation with spy movies and has a ball with a Bond take-off entitled Impressions of the Western Cinema. He envisons a future state of espionage technology when even roses are bugged and he evokes a worldwide convention of secret agents meeting under the banner: "If you don't spy, you don't eat." Then...