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...taste may have run more toward Sinatra or Broadway musicals, but Kennedy believed that it was his duty to endorse the excellent in all things, to be a leader in matters of civilization. That was a novel notion in American politics, novel at least since the days of Thomas Jefferson...
...William Faulkner for his treatment of 'non-Western people.' " Peter De Vries weighs in with a brilliant Yoknapatawpha parody, then Kenneth Tynan lampoons Faulkner in his spoonbread rendition of Our Town: "Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Mississippi ... Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those faraway old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about...
...Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government." In this framework. I have always believed that rallies are crucial. They provide an important forum for freedom, of expression and an opportunity to educate people. In my opinion, tonight's rally facilitated neither...
...birthday (which actually is Jan. 15) as a national holiday had been introduced in every session of Congress since the charismatic minister was assassinated in 1968, and just as regularly sidetracked. Opponents questioned whether King or anyone else should be granted an honor never conferred on Lincoln or Jefferson. But blacks have been registering to vote in numbers that hardly any politician can continue to ignore, and the holiday had become an issue of enormous symbolic significance. In August the House voted for the idea...
Other House HAND committees will sponsor similar events in the next few days, Currier House is holding a costume making party for a group of children from the Jefferson park housing projects on Sunday afternoon...