Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vain will not be determined alone by the success or failure of civil rights legislation or by improvement of housing and economic opportunities for minorities, but also by the degree to which all of us, blacks and whites, are committed to the pursuit and practice of nonviolence and love. Any commitment short of total is a farce...
...poor Negro youths. Let the middle-and upper-class Negro of America concentrate on the ghettos and talk to the boys and girls there, and let them know that there is a big world outside and they must aim for it. Let the American Negro have the courage to love, even where that love might not be returned. In short, I hope that the American Negro, in the name of Dr. Martin Luther King, will play it long, strong and very cool...
...same problem Congressmen face in patronage fights. The unsophisticated observer thinks Congressmen love to hand out patronage -- like postmasterships in small towns. The truth is they hate it. For, as one Congressman puts it: 'The day before you choose your postmaster, you have ten friendly supplicants and sycophants. The day after, you have nine violent critics--and one ingrate...
...underdeveloped "third world," at tending Rome's Pontifical Urban University, to share in the ritual. One seminarian was from North Viet Nam, another from South Korea; four were Africans. Afterward, in a ten-minute sermon, the Pope spoke of the universal need for fraternity. "A new current of love must turn enemies into friends, strangers into brothers," he said. "Love is still shrunken and confined in side borders of customs, interests and selfishness which must be widened. Love is the distinguishing sign of the authentic Christian...
...Poor Thing." Nordhoff accomplished his miracle at Volkswagen mainly by his love and knowledge of his business and an endless capacity for work. On a seven-day week, with only a few hours off for sleep, he started with 7,000 workers, and, after weeks spent clearing the rubble, began turning out the prototype bug designed before the war by Ferdinand Porsche. The product, he knew, was "a poor thing, cheap, ugly and inefficient." Its engine would expire after 10,000 miles, its brakes and springing were atrocious...