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Senate speeches are often not worth the cost of printing them in the Congressional Record. Designed to please some particular group of constituents, they impart to the proceedings in that chamber an unrivalled tedium. Last Friday's session, therefore, was most unusual, as two senators delivered addresses appropriate to the distinguished platform of the Senate, and well worth the attention of the nation...
...Strings is drama without trauma, which may account for its success as entertainment. It is vivacious and sophisticated without being taxing. The interracial romance seems to be there not because Rodgers wants to impart a social message, but because it creates an interesting story...
...both from within and without. Separate units dispersed inside give each floor an independent wind and rumble capability. Mounted on the roof are four propellers, which may not be World War II Air Force surplus, yet reproduce the effects of a B-17 warming up in the attic. They impart to the lower floors a pulse beat of a steady thirty-five, which quickens to a dull tremor throughout the upper stories...
...would like to take the opportunity to broaden this final point. If the ghetto does not impart an equalitarian strain to its victims, then it impresses the dog-eat-dog ethos upon them, and perpetuates a cycle of discrimination. The image of Jewish landlords violating state housing laws at the expense of Harlem tenants, to my mind, fits this cycle; so does Negro persecution and exploitation of Puerto Ricans and other Negroes. Advancing the cycle to grant the Negro middle class its exploitative prerogatives does not complement the civil rights movement...
...time for liberals to realize that the centuries in the ghetto might impart an equalitarian strain to the emergent Negro middle class, but they might just as likely foster a deep and powerful opportunism. One need only consider the Jewish middle class in New York, a generation removed from the pograms of Eastern Europe, yet vigorously upholding a segregated network of schools and homes. The institutional lip service that Jews pay, to equality through the B'nai B'rith precisely parallels the sanctimonious references to civil rights that free the consciences of Atlanta's Negro middle class...