Word: klux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ideologically, we oppose the whole idea of uniformed vigilantes mobilizing wherever they deem their presence is needed. Romantic visions of wild, wild West ranchers hunting down evil bandits should not overshadow other examples in our history of people taking the law into their own hands. The Ku Klux Klan, after all, lynched for the sake of Southern order and womanhood...
...these shores in bondage." Two mornings after last week's installation ceremonies (attended by Haley), someone sheared the six bolts anchoring the plaque and made off with it. Left in its place was a small card with the inscription: "You have just been patronized by the Ku Klux Klan...
Giamatti, who was prevented from delivering his remarks in person when he was hospitalized for removal of a kidney stone, also lamented a rise in "antiSemitic episodes" and the growing visibility of the Ku Klux Klan. The New Right, he said, has "licensed a new meanness of spirit in our land, a resurgent bigotry that manifests itself in racist and discriminatory postures; in threats of political retaliation; in injunctions to censorship; in acts of violence." He added: "What disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny...
October 7--Fifty students prevent the Adams House Film Society from showing D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation," saying that they object to the film's treatment of the Ku Klux Klan...
Still, there is Pryor. Whether he is trying to keep up his nerve while holding up a television store, getting the Ku Klux Klan to help push the bus out of the mud, or merely riding a horse for the first time, he has an indestructible charm. Another comedian might grow desperate in such unpromising circumstances. Not Pryor. The easy subtlety of his glances and gestures, never too big, always wonderfully readable, almost convinces one that something worthwhile is happening here-or is about to. One remains alert to his possibilities. And wishes that the people who make his pictures...