Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What urban education needs is not more money but more parents willing to give their children care, motivation and chastisement-the will to learn." The speaker is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a former lieutenant of Martin Luther King, oratorical spellbinder and director of Chicago-based Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), a community development organization founded to help the urban poor. Jackson has been preaching a new gospel of self-discipline to replace self-pity among black high school youths. "We keep saying that Johnny doesn't read because he's deprived, hungry and discriminated against," says...
ADLAI STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS by JOHN BARTLOW MARTIN 828 pages. Doubleday...
...John Bartlow Martin, a journalist who was an occasional Stevenson speechwriter, reveals another, more driven side to the Democratic standardbearer. He was, in fact, a practical politician who played the game as skillfully as the next man. His fastidious grumbling about the demands of politics was something of a pose. Martin suggests that the candidate deliberately contrived a diffident persona to appeal to the civic-minded, rather snobbish liberals who came to adore...
Stevenson's biographer traces his ambition-as well as his self-doubts-to an obscure boyhood tragedy. At 13 he accidentally shot and killed another child. Stevenson never mentioned the episode in later life, but Martin discerns veiled references to it in letters and conversations. A sense of guilt never entirely left the boy or the man; his life was to be an atonement for that death. Stevenson once wrote a woman whose son had a similar experience: "Tell him he must live...
Described as "clowns" by Cleveland police commissioner Clifford Bruce, neither Claude Vealey or Buddy Martin had finished junior high school. They both had long arrest records--during the three-month period in which they planned to kill Yablonski, they were both involved in numerous burglaries. Both were alcoholics...