Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...betrayal of the movement's tradition of local autonomy. At last week's meeting, the Rev. Robert Burns of Atlanta, spokesman for several hundred churches, asked: "Why is all this control from the top necessary? There has never yet been an organization that, given power, didn't use it. This is no less than incipient dictatorship." Another dissident, the Rev. Rex Miller of Jewell, Kans., complained that "at a time when the Roman Catholic Church is loosening the bonds of its hierarchy, we find ourselves putting them...
...conservative town. He has held antiwar meetings in the church, counseled youths on how to avoid the draft, been arrested with Negroes at a sit-in. Last July he invited Milwaukee's Father William Groppi and a contingent of his followers down to join a series of Black Power demonstrations in South Bend. Less than a month later, an arsonist hurled a Molotov cocktail at Schneiders' church, and half of it was destroyed by fire. The Insurance Company of North America duly covered the $40,000 worth of damage-but then canceled the congregation's policy...
...Shirley Temple Black had married Tyrone Power, she'd be Shirley Black Power...
...right of dissent and the question of police powers over demonstrators are at issue in a number of cases. Negro Comedian Dick Gregory, for example, seeks to reverse a 1965 disorderly conduct conviction in Chicago'. Arrested during a demonstration near Mayor Daley's home, Gregory is challenging the police claim that they had a right to disperse peaceful protesters simply because angry hecklers near by might have become violent. Among the draft-dissent cases, the most important is an appeal from James Oestereich, who was reclassified from 4D (divinity student) to 1A by his draft board last year...
...championship fight in return for the commutation of his jail sentence. Broody, badgered and in a kind of psychic agony, he finally turns on his white woman as the symbol of all his woes and throws her out. In a sequence of tear-jerking melodrama rather than honest emotional power, she commits suicide. Cowed and crushed, Jefferson accedes to his arranged defeat in Havana...