Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before. His night patrols have become far less frequent. "Once the policeman was respected," laments McCaffrey. "Now, if he tells a fellow to move on, the fellow asks, 'Why should I?' " McCaffrey also decries "the awful changes in the church-young priests leading civil disobedience, going to jail, burning draft cards." Last week, weary and dismayed, he packed his bags and headed for clean suburban retirement in New Jersey. Taking a final, fretful look at his garish parish, Father McCaffrey sighed: "I suppose I'm an old-fashioned guy with old-fashioned ideas, and the world...
...Hattie Mae Johnson is on the County. She has four children and her husband is now in jail for nonsupport, as he was unemployed and was not able to give her any money. Her welfare check is now $286 per month. Last night she went out with the biggest player in town. If she got pregnant, then nine months from now, how much more will her welfare check...
Campaign leaders vow the movement will not die. Economic boycotts are planned for 40 cities in an effort to force merchants to help the poor. From his jail cell, Abernathy vowed to fast through his 20-day sentence and pledged that "Resurrection Cities will spring up all over the country." One did, briefly, in Olympia, Wash., on a corner of the state capitol grounds. "Resurrection City II" (three Indian tepees and four tents) and its counterparts may continue to prod the nation's conscience-and occasionally test its patience...
Leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who are still in Washington with about three hundred campaigners (some in the D.C. jail), admitted last week that it is a good thing that the City is gone. The Rev. Andrew Young and the Rev. Hosea Williams of SCLC both said that the business was a mistake...
...made brain-bendingly complicated by being worked for ironies on three levels. First, the narrative of the butcher's life in conventional chronology is matched to the action in reverse chronology (he tells about graduating from school into the world while the camera shows him emerging backwards from jail). There are also double meanings in reverse-order conversation ("Such sad-looking fish," says wife to lover. "You are too, my dear," says lover. "The weather is beautiful," says wife). Finally, Happy End has double meanings in reverse action; in his first meeting with his faithless wife, she jumps into...