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...pull him through again. Accompanied by the country music of "Johnny Dollar and the Dollar Bills," Wallace still promises defiance of federal desegregation orders, and he plays hard on the old theme of the ingrained inferiority and persecution complexes that grip much of Alabama. "They used to say how rude and crude we all were, us rednecks," he told one hollering crowd recently. "Well, last year they were saying, 'Yessir, Mr. Wallace, and yessir, Mr. Alabama.'" Wallace claims that because of him, many of the speeches by Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew sound "as if written here...
...famous Casals sense of injustice asserted itself even when he was a child. Financed by the royal family of Spain, young Casals auditioned for the Conservatory of Music in Brussels, and after being rudely taunted by the cello professor for claiming an astoundingly broad repertory, stunned both professor and students with his playing. When the professor then eagerly asked Casals to join the class, Casals snapped: "You were rude to me, sir. You ridiculed me in front of your pupils. I do not want to remain here one second longer." He left for Paris, forfeiting the royal family...
Charges against the students include disturbing the peace, unlawful assembly, and rude and disorderly conduct. The trials will be held...
...schematic representations of the vulva; and the Valentine heart-a symbol that McLean believes is more erotic than sentimental. Typically, the heart symbol, if it survives long enough on the wall, gets further embellishment; someone adds an arrow, and then later another resourceful artist converts the heart into a rude approximation of the female posterior...
...most of white America, the black church is an alien segment of the nation's culture, hidden behind the plain facades of large brick city churches, the rude clapboard of country chapels, the salvation-emblazoned windows of tattered store fronts. It is a montage of impressions, some real, some misleading: the low-moaning spirituals, the clapping and the shouted amens; the phenomenon of a Father Divine and the curious charisma once possessed by the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell; the prophetic, nation-shaking philosophy of a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the pragmatic, neighborhood-building politics...