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What may well speed the "plodding gait of the law." says S.R.C.. is the profound effect of Negro sit-in strikes on the South. S.R.C. considers them "the most important development of 1960." With an impressive number of lunch-counter settlements to their credit, the strikers succeeded "in causing white Southerners to see Negro Southerners as individuals." Such is the crux of the case for school desegregation. "What so many dime stores have acknowledged is what the lawsuits have asked, and still ask, the school systems to practice...
...also suffers from Fü;p-Miller's one-dimensional characterization: across a symbolic landscape, only sardonic Adam Ember (Hungarian for "man"') plods with recognizably human gait. But despite such weaknesses, The Silver Bacchanal is genuinely disturbing as a brutish vision of the dark cravings that often lurk beneath the thin texture of civilization...
Though the Christian yogi does not appear to be different from other men, "a trained eye may be able to recognize him by his gait, bearing, gestures or reserve." There is a seal on everything he does because he shuns habit and auto matic behavior-he is present with his whole being in whatever he is doing. The Christian yogi knows that he has gradually made his body into a faithful servant. "You order it (and it obeys) to help you to practise fully even virtues as great as faith, hope and Christian charity...
Married. Anne Baxter, 36, cinemactress (The Ten Commandments); and Randolph Gait, 30, cattle rancher; she for the second time (No. 1: Cinemactor John Hodiak), he for the first; in Honolulu...
Stocky (5 ft. 6 in.), with a simian gait, a large, handsome head and a loud, clear voice that was usually raised in argument, Orde Wingate saw himself eternally at war with "the tyranny of the dull mind," i.e., nine-tenths of his immediate military superiors and nearly all army regulations. When he was passed over for an appointment to the Staff College, Wingate strode to a Yorkshire hilltop where General Sir Cyril Deverell, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking...