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...superpatriotic society of prerevolutionary Russia resembling in many ways the Ku Klux Klan.* Mendel Beiliss was at length exonerated, but not before his show trial had served its purpose. He died, at 60, in obscurity in New York...
...correct when you say, in reviewing Carl Bakal's The Right to Bear Arms [July 29], that the U.S. of 1966 has no marauding redcoats or redskins. But unfortunately we do have the Black Muslims, Hell's Angels, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. Since the beginning of time, man has needed to defend himself. To deny the honest citizen easy access to firearms is to deny him a life without fear...
...schedule double performances in 16 shows, are already planning another series next year with expanded seating. Another new attraction is the Manhattan Opera Company, whose English-language productions include an Aida that is set in the present-day South, with Ramfis as Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and Aida his Ne gro servant. Dance buffs will get their chance in two weeks when the park's Shakespeare troupe, now in its twelfth season, yields its stage to a nine-day festival of ballet, ethnic and modern dance. Hoving's hoopla has perked up the park...
...Land of the Free, is kicking up a storm. It says that "in a few instances, an aroused slave killed a hated overseer or his master." Later, it reports that the present-day civil rights drive "drew savage resistance from local police, the White Citizens Council, the Ku Klux Klan, and mobs and assassins." When proposed for use in California schools, Land of the Free was denounced from the right as being "unAmerican" and too "internationalist," and from the left for not paying enough attention to Mexican and Chinese-Americans. The prime complaint, says Retired Los Angeles Principal Beulah Quiette...
...N.A.A.C.P. will have none of this. We have fought it too long. It is the ranging of race against race on the irrelevant basis of skin color. It is the father of hatred and the mother of violence. It is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." Martin Luther King announced that he would consider launching a wave of civil-disobedience demonstrations as an alternative to the violent tenets of the black-power movement, but he too warned that black power is "racism in reverse. The use of the phrase gives the feeling that Negroes...