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...life and thought have been revived in the English edition of Letters 1961-1968 (Eerdmans; 382 pages; $18.95). Written late in his life, the 325 letters are full of typical Barthian barbs directed at the Allies' policy of rearming the West German "empire" and "the rabid mob of anti-Communists." Among the aging theologian's enthusiasms: Mozart (Barth proposed him for beatification), American Civil War battles, and the contemporary U.S., which he visited for the first and only time at age 75 ("a fantastic affair...
Just before dawn, a pack of Times Square ruffians comes running wildly after a terrified, nearly naked young man. The mob is close behind, screeching, cursing, lobbing bottles and beer cans at the victim...
...shirt, my jacket, wallet, everything. Mom, get me out of here.' " The Courys said they would try to contact friends in suburban New Jersey to help him. Coury waited near the police post until midnight. A few hours later he was in Times Square, running from the heckling mob. Another brother, Charles, says Gerry was "accosted, beaten, stripped and abandoned in New York City. I certainly would have freaked out after that...
Although the indictment cast a dark shadow over the convention and its 2,200 delegates, the issues were rarely confronted directly. Presiding as the interim president in place of the late Frank Fitzsimmons, whose subdued public leadership had offended neither the Justice Department nor the Mob, Williams scoffed at his accusers. He dismissed the latest indictment as "a damned lie" and the congressional report as "so wrong and so false" that he need not respond...
...Kresge's to win equal service at the luncheonette counter. Black and white protesters were assaulted by people at the counter. Then the assailants brought charges against the protesters. Koch tells the story with helpless humor (the "heh, heh, heh") about the pixilated justice of the peace; the redneck mob; the unhelpful FBI officer named Robert E. Lee, to whom Koch offered to send his intended route to Jackson, "to make it easier for you to find the bodies." And the inevitable verdict...