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Both extremes of white and black culture must be avoided. Many whites want him clawless; many blacks want him flawless. But we must keep him fully human, warts and all. In the end, King used the inevitability of a premature death to argue for social change and measure our commitment to truth. There is a lot to be learned in how King feared and faced death, and fought it too. What we make of his death may determine what we make of his legacy and our future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burdens of Martyrdom | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...spenders, must have had Eden as its model, as a place at once disciplined and open-ended. That is the way the rich would have nature: apparently free yet under the thumb. They would have their animals the same way, which is why they are often attended by clawless panthers and gaga-looking bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Sad Truth About Big Spenders | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...Clawless Cat. The assembly turned out to be most reluctant to fulfill his request. Most delegates, in fact, had come to Addis Ababa convinced that Tshombe was a traitor to Africa's cause, and that the Congo's crisis was essentially an ideological battle between patriots and traitors. Not so, declared Tshombe during five days of debate, insisting that the real problem was the complete breakdown of law and order that followed the Belgian departure in 1960-which the Communists have been able to turn to their advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Mission to Addis | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

Your Oct. 4 story is calumniatory to the Yellowstone bear. We suspect the Russian bear is toothless, clawless, sexless and brainwashed into its anthropomorphic antics. Yellowstone unregimented bears gather along the roadside midsummer time to enjoy the free performance of nearly two million park visitors, biting very few considering the expanse of toothsome human epidermis proffered daily. Our bears are indignant at your slander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 18, 1963 | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bite & Hop | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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