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...candidate, who said he is trying to smile more, appeared downright jubilant at the parade, where he was followed by about 30 supporters, who alternately chanted. "Gimme that ole rainbow spirit"--a reference to the King campaign's description of its voting coalition--and "Mel King para alcalde [for mayor...
Despite the innovations, the year is a transitional one. Further changes are planned for the future, and professors hint that this year's experiment will seem downright conservative by comparison...
...most people, that philosophical distinction is not acutely evident. At times it gets downright muddy: What's wrong with noticing what a girl looks like? You want everybody to be asexual? Confusion increases when one leaves the rarefied turf of Harvard for the fuzzy ground on which the American woman stands. "Oh, sure, women have rights...and I know you're not supposed to say they're not the same...
...most notably a child's den, were dark and half-furnished. By the time dinner was served, my feet ached, the sycophants had shifted into high gear and the evening had acquired a deafening hollow fine, leaving me with the impression that certain kinds of success make failure look downright edifying by contrast...
...leave you with," he says. "Either we ought to stop lying to our children or we ought to start believing it and doing the things necessary to make it come true." Bishop H.H. Brookins takes the podium to ridicule the large number of black officeholders who are wary, even downright disapproving, of a Jackson candidacy. "We did not have to ask black elected officials what they thought we should do, because after all we elected them!" he preaches. "If not now, when? If not Jesse...