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...reels--you imagine the women hanging on the banisters and the player piano going." So is she glorifying prostitution? "No way. I know for sure this was a rugged business. Douching with Lysol, years of raging alcohol abuse. You see that here too." Many in Butte, however, would rather consign such depressing images to history...
...parties have engineered this so that the first two nights of the conventions are more display, more theatrical, not breaking news like it once was," Ortiz said. "But rather than consign it to no coverage, we felt it would be responsible to cover it some...
...course, in part because other historians have responded to a furious anti-Lincoln article Bennett wrote for Ebony in 1968 by providing less heroic profiles of the 16th President. What's new is Bennett's emphasis. As he writes, even now some white scholars tend to consign the unflattering truth about Lincoln's racist ideals to "footnotes and asides." Glory rips off the cover. And yet, since it was published in February, Glory has been met with what Bennett calls a "conspiracy of silence." By last week not a word had appeared in the book-review sections...
Additionally, during the panel Nathanson compared murderer Hill to John Brown, the abolitionist who died trying to start a war against slavery a few years prior to the Civil War. While Nathanson said of people like Hill, "I consign them to the lunatic fringe," his comparisons of Hill to Brown makes Hill seem like a martyr for a cause that will soon draw the whole country into battle. In fact, Hill would see this comparison as a compliment. He proclaims from his website, "Now is the time to defend the unborn in the same way you'd defend slaves about...
...compare [those who advocate violence] to John Brown," he said. "I consign them to the lunatic fringe...