Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Fisher and Ben Thompson. King Fisher is known to have killed 12 men-not including Mexicans. He had a big ranch on the Nueces River in Texas, and he used to shoot people who came onto his property. Ben Thompson, at the age of 13, deliberately shot a playmate. He later killed a Frenchman in a New Orleans knife duel. And when in the Confederate Army, he killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown...
...Martin Luther King threw out the first ball in Atlanta yesterday, and Braves catcher Bob Didier dropped it. The rest of his teammates followed his example throughout the game, helping the Mets, one of the big surprises in baseball this year, to win the second game of the playoff...
Curiously, the book is at its best when retelling familiar events. From the bus boycott through the Atlanta sitins, from the jailing in Birmingham to the assassination in Memphis, Mrs. King succeeds not merely by adding intimate touches but by providing a personal context within which the events of King's public life take on a deepened drama. "If anybody had told me a couple of years ago that I would be in this position," King once explained to Coretta, "I would have avoided it with all my strength. But gradually you take some responsibility, then a little more...
When Mrs. King is at her best as a writer, she displays the same dignified control she first showed on television at her husband's funeral. Then her restraint underlined the horror of the days following her husband's death. Now her spare narrative has the same intensifying effect-particularly in the final section on the assassination. The book offers no particular analysis of the tactics of nonviolence. Her portrait of Dr. King is not drawn with an especially clear or unbiased eye; wifely loyalty often robs him of the humanity of having faults. Dispassionate reportage...
Downey refers to himself as "a prince." "I'm too young to be a king and too committed to be a queen" is the stock answer he gives for this. But, he says a few seconds later, "you have to be a prince to survive all the shit in this business-running around for two years, kissing people's asses to get backing...