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...from that of whites in terms of technology, productivity and intellectual interests. From the viewpoint of what makes a modern civilization work, Indian culture appears hopelessly irrelevant. To some extent, the collision of Western and Indian cultures warped the conquerors' attitudes. When the Senecas sought assurances from President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 that their rights would be protected, no attempt was made to bridge the cultural gap. They received a patronizing note from a secretary that said: "Brothers, your father, the President, will at all times be your friend and he will protect you and all his red children from...
...kind of segregation as whites abandoned the public schools to the black invasion. In Natchez, where Baptist churches are pooling their resources to form private schools, a third of the city's 4,500 white students failed to register for classes. In Wilkinson County, where Confederate President Jefferson Davis spent his boyhood and blacks now outnumber whites by at least 3 to 1, only two white children-11-year-old Annette Brown and her brother, Thomas, 10-showed up for the first day of desegregated classes. Their father, eighth-grade Dropout Burnell Brown, says he would prefer, but cannot...
Before his return to Jefferson four days later, Lucius has gotten an eyeful of sparks. He has been stabbed for defending Corrie's good name against the slanders of her rotten nephew Otis ("Imagine," says a wondering Boon as he cleans out the wound, "eleven years old and already knife-cut in a whorehouse brawl"). He has found himself in the middle of a quarrel between his pals and Sheriff Butch Lovemaiden. And he has become involved in the damnedest, most exciting horse race anybody ever...
...Jefferson Airplane records Surrealistic Pillow...
...touchingly in a song such as Golden Slumbers. Although Led Zeppelin draws upon such blues wellsprings as Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon. it does not make its debts its originality. While Led Zeppelin is not so resonantly lyrical as the Beatles. or self-consciously evangelical as Jefferson Airplane. or menacing and cleverly crude as the Rolling Stones. it nevertheless produces a more puissant and unmannered sound than any of these more famous groups. Led Zeppelin like the very few excellent groups. plays with neither tediousness nor superfluity. The essence of the group is superior playing of a propulsive character controlled...