Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge Brady, author of Black Monday [Dec. 12], is for the birds, and is a pompous windbag to boot. It is not the N.A.A.C.P. which we true Southerners, both white and black, have to fear but men like Brady, whose statements make us sound like a bunch of "hold my magnolia, while I beat my slave" fools...
...Granted, Poet Donald Hall has some noble lines to his credit; TIME'S Dec. 5 august dispenser of "sweet praise" picked a sour line to hold aloft and admire: "Like most good poets, Hall knows that 'Life is hell, but death is worse.' " There will be a moment of silence while we strike from the list of "most good poets": Shakespeare - "O, amiable lovely death"; Whitman - "Lovely and soothing death"; Shelley - "How wonderful is death...
Green Light. Under fire were ramifications of the kickoff Gray proposal: a statewide referendum, scheduled for Jan. 9, on whether to hold a state constitutional convention. The convention, if authorized, could revise Section 141 of the Virginia constitution which, like similar laws in 44 other states, now prohibits the use of public funds for private schools. Revision would open the way to publicly financed "tuition grants," which would foot the bills for parents to send children to segregated private schools anywhere in the state. Corollary legislation under the Gray plan would allow school boards to assign pupils to public schools...
Italy. Down from 2,300,000 in 1946 to 1,700,000 in 1954, but still the biggest Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain. Losing some of its hold on the trade unionists. "Even inflated official Communist figures indicate stagnation and not growth in Italy." The impressive Communist vote in Italy's last national election: 6,120,000 (22.6% of the vote), plus 3,440,000 (12.7%) for Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists...
Challenge & Reservations. Like elections everywhere, local needs and local personalities loomed large. But Mendès-France one day last week demonstrated, in perhaps the most important utterance of the campaign, that "tomorrow's secret" might hold consequences pertinent to France's future as an international power and as a Western ally. Mendès, looking for votes on the left, made a move to woo voters away from the Communists-and did so by bending his policy to appeal to pro-Communist voters...