Word: jr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frightened me," he wrote later. "I wondered where children got their strength -- the strength, in this case, to walk through mobs to get to school." Those were heroic days in the South, when obscure and unarmed people with names like Rosa Parks and James Meredith and Martin Luther King Jr. fought for black rights on obscure battlefields with names like Selma and Neshoba County. In one of those rare cases of the right man and time and place, Jimmy was there too, organizing, encouraging, marching, helping to "bear witness to the truth...
...none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer." After Jimmy was operated on for cancer last spring, he went back to writing a book about one of his friends, Martin Luther King Jr., and until the end, he kept hoping to finish it. That work didn't get done...
...course of an average week, Robert M. Parker Jr., 40, will sniff, sip and spit his way through hundreds of bottles of wine (reds in the morning, whites in the afternoon). The opinions recorded at his daily tastings are written up primarily for the 21,000 subscribers (at $30 a year) to his influential, fact-choked bi-monthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. Finally, some of the judgments will mature into a book. November marked the publication of his third, The Wines of the Rhone Valley and Provence (Simon & Schuster; $22.95); both sections of France, Parker believes, offer good bargains...
Advocates for the disabled, including Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., assembled last night at the Kennedy School to promote awareness of disability issues and to advocate public policy changes in favor of civil rights for the handicapped...
...conflicts with the Soviets go far beyond what can be addressed in personal agreements, said Richard E. Pipes. Frank B. Baird Jr. professor of history and an expert on the Soviet Union. Pipes said the Soviets have agreed to this reduction mainly because they are building new weapons such as the SS-24 missile. which makes those nuclear arms being eliminated not as useful to them. and frees them to use the treaty to "make a good impression...