Word: parker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late William Parker, Reddin's predecessor, was the epitome of the police professional, a crusty authoritarian who had little truck with sociological theories. Taking over a scandal-tainted force in 1950, Parker made it as honest as any in the nation, boosting standards, competence and morale, and giving the L.A. police a paramilitary esprit. He did not, however, understand the new problems caused by the postwar influx of Mexican-Americans and Negroes. For several years before his death in 1966, the once progressive department stagnated as the ailing chief's ideas congealed into dogma and he labored to surround...
Black people, L.A. State Senator Mervyn Dymally told the McCone commission investigating the Watts riot, "generally expected the worst from the police?and generally received it." Even after Watts had been pacified in 1965, Parker could not help exulting: "We're on the top, and they're on the bottom...
...Roman side, the young courtiers Lentulus (Anthony Mainionis) and Metellus (Michael Parish) are insufficiently differentiated. Ken Parker is an amusingly scared Menagerie Keeper. Rex Everhart, wielding a billy-club, is the Editor in charge of all the gladiators, of whom the near-naked Retiarius (Harold Miller) and armored Secutor (DeVeren Bookwalter) go through their paces commendably, and lend color to the spectacle (an excess of color is provided by Jane Greenwood's costumes for many of the Christians, which are far too gaudy and even psychedelic...
...schoolmaster Holofernes (Stefan Gierasch), barefoot, bowlegged, and wearing a huge diaper and silver-rimmed glasses, is a middle-aged Gandhi with traces of a Bronx accent. His sidekick Nathaniel (Ken Parker) has trouble reciting without beating his right hand in time with his sing-song delivery...
Expectable in almost every other way, the nomination nonetheless provoked an unexpected reaction, arousing more opposition in the Senate than any other court appointment since 1930?when Herbert Hoover's choice of John J. Parker was rejected by a margin of two votes. But Parker was denied the post because of labor and Negro antipathy. Fortas is opposed not for what he has done but for what he is: the choice of a man who will be in office for less than seven more months, and the President's close friend and confidant to boot. The appointment smacked of "cronyism...