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...democracy in this country. While it is true all these organizations will not go beyond the fight for immediate goals, each of them has its particular place at this stage of struggle. Major victories can be won against discrimination before socialism is achieved. Moreover, the fight to end Jim Crow will produce some very fundamental changes in this society. If the vote becomes a reality to the Southern Negro, for example, it would destroy the Dixiecrat-Republican conservative coalition that dominates Congress, and allow the passage of key legislation (such as genuine home rule for Washington, D.C., repeal of section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Letter From the Communist Party | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...other influences on Kazantzakis' thought pale before the figure of Alexis Zorba, and Kazantzakis' final judgment of life coincides with his: "Greetings, man, you little two-legged plucked cock! It's really true (don't listen to what others say): if you don't crow in the morning, the sun does not come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Last Testament | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...heavyweight crow Saturday's race at Navy was a new experience--the night did not break a record. A stiff headwind on the Severn slowed the race considerably Harvard finished 8:52.5, well off the 8:24.2 record for the one and three quarter mile distance set in 1941 by another Crimson crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Stops Navy, Penn, Enters Sprint Unbeaten | 5/10/1965 | See Source »

...night attack has started, and I am with a fire brigade in a sandbag crow's nest on top of a tall building near the Thames." So somberly, portentously, Edward R. Murrow began an evening broadcast of the London blitz in the early days of World War II. To listeners in the U.S., his resonant, sepulchral voice came to convey the grim reality of war. Murrow followed Londoners on their way to air-raid shelters and caught their measured footsteps on his mike; he joined R.A.F. bomber pilots on their raids over Germany and described the nightmarish rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Voice of Crisis | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...something over a year ago when I first heard The Voice. I went down to Greenwich Village to hear Langston Hughes' musical panorama Jerico-Jim Crow, performed in a building that does double duty as a church and a synagogue...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Gilbert Price--Velvet on His Voice | 4/1/1965 | See Source »

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