Word: kinfolks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent the day in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, about 30 miles from Homestead. They gathered, about 10,000 of them, in a joyous mood. They waited and waited. Almost twelve hours passed while Castro stalled. Even after landing at Homestead, the ex-prisoners were kept from their kinfolk while being fitted for fresh khakis and given a roast beef dinner...
...produced . . . The Negro's past, of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred, and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible-this past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal...
Then it was off to Hyannisport, with about two dozen other Kennedys and Kennedy kinfolk, for Thanksgiving Day. The children ate in the afternoon, then saw movies in Old Joe Kennedy's 40-seat theater; the grown Kennedys feasted at 7 p.m. on a 32-lb. turkey. Only two things marred the occasion: little John Jr. had been left back at the White House with a bad cold, and fog and a cold rain weathered out the family's annual Thanksgiving Day touch football game...
...JACK CARTER: J.F.K. means "Just for Kinfolk...
...farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years later, while teaching high school back home, Stuart memorialized his mountain kinfolk with an ingenuous, affecting book of colloquial sonnets, Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow. "I was not mastering poetry," he decided. "It was mastering me." Last week, many novels, short stories and verse collections later, Jesse Stuart, now at 53 having left his Kentucky farm to teach for a year...