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...enclosing a facsimile of an article which appeared in the March 31st issue of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. It is one of several hundred 'scare' stories which have appeared in Mississippi papers since SNCC announced 'Mississippi Freedom Summer' last December. The CRIMSON'S editing of my remarks seems to have been carried several steps further by the Ledger. It is my fondest hope that I will not be jailed for insurrection when I return to the Sovereign State--at least not on the grounds of this one half-whimsical remark. Though nothing I could say could possibly damage SNCC...
...Wallace in an effort to embarrass the Johnson Administration. But Wisconsin's Reynolds knew better. Said he in a postprimary statement: "All that Mr. Wallace has demonstrated is what we've known all along. We have a lot of people who are prejudiced." Politically inept as that remark may have been, Reynolds had a point. The real issue in the primary was civil rights. Wallace had entered the Wisconsin primary to demonstrate that many Northern, as well as Southern, whites are unhappy about current civil rights trends. And he demonstrated just that -dramatically...
...location of this remark in your correspondent's article gives the misleading impression that I said Negro peoples should accept a cultural inferiority complex. This I did not say. What I said was that in terms of the concept of "Negritude," it is held that peoples of African descent cannot overcome a certain cultural inferiority complex by denying that their indigenous cultures were at a technologically low level of evolution...
...thing wrong with The Wapshot Scandal is that too little of it is about the Wapshots. The remark is not as captious as it appears, for it was that old New England family--Leander, his wife Sarah, their sons Moses and Coverley, and Cousin Honora--that gave Cheever's 1957 book, The Wapshot Chronicle, its extraordinary vitality. Honora, quirky and self-willed as ever, admittedly comes close to being the central figure in this, the author's second novel; and Moses and Coverley, now mature and married, appear from time to time, usually under increasingly desperate circumstances. But most...
...Adams House proposal was prompted by a remark by R.T. Martin, Manager of the Adams House Dining Hall. In response to a student inquiry, Martin said that he could provide food of superior quality if he did not have to serve second helpings...