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...recognition, and in 1951 he was named pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, where he also joined the N.A.A.C.P. He approached civil rights with the same intensity as he did the Bible. So it was not surprising that he got the first call for help after Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus in 1955, thereby launching the most protracted-and successful-nonviolent protest in American history...
...Boston University, King gained a doctorate and a bride, Antioch College Graduate Coretta Scott, and in 1954 took his first pastorate in Montgomery, Ala. There in 1955, a seamstress' tired feet precipitated the first great civil rights test of power and launched King's galvanic career. Mrs. Rosa Parks's arrest for re fusing to give her seat on a town bus to a white man ended 382 days later with capitulation of the Montgomery bus line to a comprehensive Negro consortium and the U.S. Supreme Court. King, too new to Montgomery to have enemies...
...elephantine parody of homosexuality. But marry he does, and he is transformed by Chayefskyean legerdemain into a happy, prospective father. To his considerable grief, the child is stillborn. Meantime, with his tax man spurring him on, Morley has acquired a corporate identity, liens on real estate, a sub rosa connection with the Mafia, a Lichtenstein subsidiary. The erstwhile writer becomes monomaniacally absorbed in profits and tax losses, an attitude that is presumably symbolic of the subversion of art by money...
Bottoms & Boots. In a rambling press conference, Sihanouk made the elaborate claim that the U.S. had vainly attempted to soft-soap him last November by sending Jacqueline Kennedy over on a sub rosa diplomatic mission. "Chester Bowles is going to try to succeed where Mrs. Kennedy failed," Sihanouk declared. "But Chester Bowles, no matter how he smiles, does not have and never will have the seductive effect of Mrs. Kennedy. He will go home empty-handed." For good measure, Sihanouk added: "I do not want to lose my dignity, I do not want to lick the bottom and boots...
...past, most Russian authors don their own fig leaf and precensor their works before submitting them to the state-owned publishing houses. The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership. Young Leningrad and Moscow writers organized a semisecret association called SMOG (an acronym for youth, courage, image and depth). They not only contribute to such clandestine publications as Phoenix, Sphinx, Kolokol (Bell) and Tetradi (Notebooks), but have secretly published whole works, among them Alexander Urusov...