Word: gleaners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gerold Frank is an incorrigible gleaner. He tells of a black photographer who collected King's blood in a pill bottle and a white doctor, with no special admiration for King, who nevertheless saved the cardiograph tape of his last heartbeats. In presenting King himself, the author shows the man's moodiness and tension and his fears that the coming Poor People's March on Washington would fail to revive the nonviolent movement. But there is no real assessment of King as a complex man who had roiled the South but failed to stir the Northern cities...
...mensaje a long one and not all valuable. But oh yes here: THE RICE PLANTER AND THE RICE GLEANER ARE ONE. THE GATHERER-AND-GLEANER FEEDS US AND SO IS NAMED "THE LOVELY ONE." BUT THE LOVELY ONE STANDS IN DANGER OF HUNGER AND OF LOSING HIMSELF WHILST WE GROW PLUMP...