Word: oles
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...prep school for political power in Mississippi is the state university law school. The last four Mississippi Governors studied there; three-fourths of the state's lawyers attended Ole Miss; and there are enough of the school's grads in the Mississippi senate to control all legislation in the state. Ole Miss produced eight of the nine members of the Mississippi Supreme Court and all three of the state's federal district judges, including Claude F. Clayton, who last week firmly ordered do-nothing police to protect Negro schoolchildren from savage white mobs in Grenada...
What the law school is the state very largely is-and there's the rub. For a century the school allowed its all-white student body to ignore the winds of U.S. constitutional change, while steeping itself almost entirely in local law, customs and politics. Ole Miss law graduates emerged with their Deep South views untouched, after which they ran the state with an isolated narrow-mindedness that has mired Mississippi in racial tragedy...
...Just because you ole hags can't appreciate good music or play gutiar worth a jellybean dosen't mean you have to go protesting about the Beatles. We think you're jealous because your stupid magazine isn't selling as well as the Beatle Albems. For petes sake, why go knocking the Beatles around? There doing better then you. By the way, both of us agree that Norwegian Wood and Day Tripper are not undecent. Where did you get that idea? Take our advice: state the right facts or flake...
...possible exception of Sixties) if forced to go it alone like the truly independent and gutsy publications where virtually all significant writers get their start. You can't really think that those four mags represent the field. Did you ever hear of The Smith? Poetry Newsletter? Manhattan Review? Ole? Earth? Probably not, because you live too far off the ground...
Since his lonely ordeal in 1962 as the first Negro student at the University of Mississippi, frail, introverted James H. Meredith has felt a messianic call. In a recent book about his Ole Miss experiences, Meredith, now a Columbia University law student, maintains: "Whether it was true or not, I had always felt that I could stop a mob with the uplift of a hand. Because of my 'divine responsibility' to advance human civilization, I could...