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...point, Eichmann's nerves melted. His face twitched; his tongue flicked his lips and his complexion became sickly pale. But his voice was firm when he made his final statement. "I am not the monster I am made out to be," he said. "This mass slaughter is solely the responsibility of political leaders. My guilt lies in my obedience, my respect for discipline, my allegiance to the colors and the service." He would ask the Jews for pardon, said Eichmann, except that, in view of the verdict, "this would be construed as hypocrisy . . . I must carry the burden imposed...
...Lewis wrote of his son in 1925: "It is certainly marvelous how such a bundle of nerves can pull in the money.") Christened Harry Sinclair Lewis and usually called Hal or Red, he was a tall, skinny, ginger-headed man afflicted all his life with a badly blotched complexion that set the seal on his ugliness. His physical unattractiveness made his youth lonely and affected his character and work. In this long and lovingly detailed biography, Critic Mark Schorer suggests that his volatile temper, his insatiable hunger for male companionship and female company, his manic alcoholism, his prankishness and exhibitionism...
...manipulated to perpetuate segregated schools." When 107 Negro children sought transfers to predominantly white schools, Willis refused to grant them. Willis stands by the neighborhood school tradition as right and good: "They can go to school wherever they live." He says that he does not even know the racial complexion of Chicago schools; no such records are kept because "we treat children as children...
...only himself but his audience as well. The American people and their government must mature into the realization that the performing artist, along with the writer and painter, is effective and entertaining only so long as he speaks with the empassioned truth of his convictions--regardless of their complexion. Not even the HUAC would ask Pablo Picasso to explain his red period and name those artists with a propensity for a similar pigment...
...complexion of female juvenile delinquency has changed "shockingly" over the past 13 years, said Rogers. In the late '40s and early '50s, the major portion of girls' delinquency "was concerned with truancy, running away from home, ungovernableness and sex offenses." Lately, more and more offenses have involved stealing and "injury to person." Youth Board studies "indicate the need for expanded service for girls, particularly those affiliated and associated with gangs. We feel that the tremendous capacity they possess for positive influence can be redirected into constructive channels...