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Beyond such general failures, the report says, the campaign was based on the "implicit racist appeal of the Southern strategy. The Senator's objections to legislating morality, his criticisms of the Supreme Court, his advocacy of states' rights, all became the shorthand for an anti-civil rights appeal. An uglier aspect of the appeal was the not very subtle attempt to link lawlessness in the streets with the Negroes, and street riots with peaceful civil rights demonstrations...
...dark den called the Five Spot, Coleman gave vent to a new style of atonal jazz, a free association of angular and seemingly disjointed sounds that brought curious jazzmen flocking to the club. Many, like Modernist Composer Gunther Schuller, found it "the first realization of all that is merely implicit in the music of Charlie Parker." Leonard Bernstein cried, "Genius!" Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson also came and were conquered. But others shared Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's reaction: "Are you cats serious?" Some even dismissed Coleman's music as "anti-jazz." Coleman said wryly: "I guess...
Warned about an "implicit" restriction on using the University's name without its permission. Walter decided to withdraw the offer. He indicated that he had opposed using Harvard's name when the promoters of the kit originally proposed doing...
...tell, it takes quite an optimist not to see an awesome chasm between stages three and four. How does King envision bridging it? The answer was implicit in his reply to a student teacher who wanted to know what he could do about five white children who keep tormenting a little Negro girl in his class. His assumption is that when the legal and extra-legal barriers to communication between races are hewn down, people will begin to see that they're all brothers under the skin, that the same things make them laugh and cry and bleed. Agape will...
...HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of this prolific writer's low-keyed chronicles, but not just more of the same. O'Hara's imagination is even livelier, his psychology broader, and the feeling implicit in a story such as Some Days I Get Such a Longing reaches an intensity that he has rarely equaled since Appointment in Samarra...