Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing of Lamont library's first-level west entrance and the redirection of library users to the main entrance of the Pusey library entrance are part of an experiment to improve security in the two libraries, Louis E. Martin, Harvard's chief librarian, said last week...
Franklin Roosevelt made his name a catch-phrase joke, but Hamilton Fish is still battling for the last laugh. A flinty New York conservative and 13-term member of the House (1920-45), Fish helped inspire the celebrated 1940 Roosevelt refrain citing Congressmen "Martin, Barton and Fish" as three banes of New Deal legislation. Now a sprightly 87, Fish recently surfaced with a new book lambasting Roosevelt (F.D.R.: The Other Side of the Coin), and he shows no signs of slowing down. Last week the hardy widower announced plans to marry Alice Curtis Desmond, 79, a friend of 40 years...
...fallacy is compounded if the man involved has exercised a visible impact on the history of his times. Supposedly, this ought to confer heroic stature on him. It rarely works that way, and I Have a Dream, a documentary series of vignettes based on the life and words of Martin Luther King fails because the drama has internal laws that transcend the most memorable of headlines...
BIRMINGHAM! THE FOOTBALL CAPITAL OF THE SOUTH' ... The mangled bodies of little girls in a bombed-out church. Martin Luther King Jr. and Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor-the irresistible black force meeting the immovable white object-confronting each other amid the flames...
...postbellum parvenu, forged on steelmaking and railroads rather than magnolias and gentility, Birmingham dug in against the black demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. Bull Connor, who really ran the city as public safety commissioner, personified entrenched white supremacy. In Birmingham's embattled spring of 1963, Connor coldly ordered his police and firemen to cut off black marches on downtown with fire hoses, police dogs and clubs. A series of bombings culminated one September morning in a blast that ripped open a black church, killing four small girls in Sunday-school class learning "the love that forgives...