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This is to express my gratitude for a beautiful piece of writing-the review of Death of a Man. It is more than a review. It is a brilliant indictment of a hollow, barren approach to courage. I have reread it until I am convinced that it is perfect
...fail to meet white standards, King worked ceaselessly. Aside from his general theological studies, he pored over the words and works of the great social philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, Hegel (whose progress-through-pain theories are still prominent in King's thinking). Above all, he read and reread everything he could find about India's Gandhi. "Even now," says King, "in reading Gandhi's words again, I am given inspiration. The spirit of passive resistance came to me from the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. The techniques of execution came from Gandhi...
...poems to suggest that they could not have been written by a very precocious child, and at the same time nothing to keep them from being judged as poetry rather than child's play. The verses are set in the serpentine typography that Minou believes necessary because "I reread better written like this." Typical was Tree that I Love...
WHILE he was propped up in a Walter Reed Hospital bed recovering from his ileitis operation, Dwight Eisenhower read and reread a meaty, 210-page volume entitled A Republican Looks at His Party (Harper; $2.95). Author: Arthur Larson, onetime Rhodes scholar, law-school dean (University of Pittsburgh), expert on workmen's compensation laws and social security, now, at 46, Eisenhower's own Under Secretary of Labor. So impressed was the President that when he returned to the White House, he summoned Author Larson-whom he had met only casually-to a private talk, had him back again...
...Reread Willa. Author Siebel's grim little slice of life has the troubling oppressiveness of a Grant Wood painting. Her portrait has a frame of iron, and within it poor Ella and all the rest do not have a chance because Julia Siebel never meant them to have one. Hatred for the harsh side of farm life is here, and hatred for the narrowness of small-town life, but it comes out as a pathological hatred instead of a meaningful one and Ella Beecher seems not so much tragic as vegetable. The publishers compare this embittered tale with...