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...when Martin Luther King led 2000 Negro demonstrators through the streets of Birmingham, the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson Mississippi noted editorially: "Now it's started in Birmingham, with the same familiar pattern. Cynical young men have once again dressed up like old women and managed to get before the fire hoses and police dogs...
...papers have been more roundly condemned for fanning racial violence than the Jackson (Miss.) News and Clarion-Ledger. Yet even those two are showing signs of moving with the times. When the Civil Rights Commission held hearings in Jackson last month, both papers covered the event with only a minimum of their customary needling. When the hearings ended, the Clarion-Ledger made an unprecedented concession: the hearings, the paper declared, had been conducted with "dignity and patience...
...speech was an admonition rather than a clarion call. Significantly, the President was at his most stirring when he praised slow and painful effort, in a passage that evoked the labor of Sisyphus and seemed to allude not merely to Johnson's own methods, not merely to the U.S., but to the condition of man. The Great Society, said Johnson, "is the excitement of becoming-always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting and trying again-but always trying and always gaining...
...Germans' great fear is that the world-particularly the U.S.-will forget about the tragedy of their sundered country. Politicians of every political stripe vie with one another in their clarion calls, and the message comes especially loud and clear in 1965, an election year...
...apparent. Writing to Time magazine, published in New York, Silver attempts to minimize the exodus of faculty and students from Ole Miss as a result of the riot. Yet, he does not mince words when addressing fellow Mississippians. In a letter written six months later to the Jackson, Miss., Clarion Ledger, he lists 39 faculty members who have left and adds, "Scores of our most talented students will not return in September...