Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...redress legitimate grievances, but he warned that the city would not tolerate lawlessness. "Law and order," said the mayor, "are the Negro's best friend-make no mistake about that. The opposite of law and order is mob rule, and that is the way of the Ku Klux Klan, the night riders and the lynch mobs...
...amendment came first, and Nelson Rockefeller bounded up to the podium. The auditorium burst into a cacophony of catcalls, interrupted with chants of "We want Barry." Rocky gallantly persisted. "It is essential," he shouted, "that this convention repudiate here and now any doctrinaire militant minority, whether Communist, Ku Klux Klan or Bircher." The crowd booed. Chairman Thruston Morton of Kentucky angrily crashed down his gavel, but the noise dipped scarcely a decibel. Rocky snapped into the microphone: "It's still a free country, ladies and gentlemen...
Except for hotels, hospitals and the Ku Klux Klan, almost no one these days gives much of a hoot for white sheets. Once the standard way to dress a bed, they are now hauled out only in an emergency (when nothing else is clean or an unexpected guest arrives), today account for less than 45% of home sales. More and more, the going way to go to bed is in checks and plaids, scallops, scrollwork, and fields upon blooming fields of flowers. And for the linen closet that has everything, Fieldcrest last week rounded out the collection. The newest...
...central figures are Anne Duncan, a waitress and technically a virgin, and Zeke Daniels, the braggartly buffoon who marries her. There are assorted relatives: Anne has a weak, churchly mother, Zeke a managing mother and a popinjay father who struts in Klan robes. They are presented in a protracted series of flashbacks leading from the marriage of Anne and Zeke. The flashbacks do not resolve down to a nub of meaning but are centrifugal, leading away from meaning into the thinning reaches of an infinity of pointlessness. Conversations take place but nothing is said. Eventually the book stops, Farrell having...
...Recently, in another city, it was my misfortune to hear the recruiting tape of the Ku Klux Klan [May 1]. I had not, till then, really realized the fantastic lengths to which these people are willing to go to keep the Negro in terror...