Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still waiting. Federal intervention in the Mississippi "black belt" will come only when the Negroes begin to shoot back. The intervention will be in the form of disarming the Negroes. What else can we expect? The FBI could not even get a conviction of the known lynchers of Mack Parker or the murderer of Rev. Lee. Even though we are told we have a "liberal tradition." how can we be so naive as to think that a few federal officers are going to crumble a social system and avoid civil violence? How can they? A system which is based...
Memento Mori. Ann Parker, a handsome blonde whose lively enthusiasm is far from ghoulish, got the idea of immortalizing tombstone carving one weekend after stumbling on a weed-grown graveyard near the hamlet of Colrain, Mass. She and Neal started boning up on New England stonecutters, found that most of them had been Yankee Jacks-of-all-trades who knew how to use chisel and mallet. One stonecutter, John Stevens of Newport, R.I., set up a shop for himself in 1705 that is still in operation after being handed down through generations of stonecutters...
...carving lay between 1650 and 1800. With prosperity and education, fashion began to dictate design, and the fine art of the gravestone, with its candid memento mori portraits, its fire-and-brimstone skulls and scythe-bearing skeletons, disappeared. "After' 1820, everything was urns and willow trees." says Ann Parker...
Each rubbing, like an etching or a print, is an original. The cost ranges from $15 to $75, making them within the budget of the average collector. Parker and Neal have a show scheduled at Carnegie Institute of Technology this month, another at Princeton in April, and late fall exhibitions in Paris and New York...
...other members of the I.P.O. (Impersonating Police Officers) Gang. In one week alone they pluck six plums off Sellers' thumb, and by week's end the poor punk is driven to a desperate remedy: set a cop to catch a cop. Unfortunately, Inspector Fred ("Nosy") Parker (Lionel Jeffries), who qualifies handily as the stupidest flatfoot seen on screen since Edgar Kennedy turned in his badge, couldn't catch a hangnail in a square mile of linsey-woolsey...