Word: sidewalkers
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...bloody rows under swarms of flies; withered crones stir their black iron stewpots with k'uai-tzu (chopsticks) while spidery men stagger past under shoulder poles bending to the weight of oil and rice-wine buckets. Over all beats the cacophony of commerce: the steamy hiss of sidewalk cooking kiosks, the piping cry of the noodle vendors, the clash of cymbals advertising the approach of the blind Chinese masseurs who ply their trade in the side streets...
...speak of The Gentlemen and The Players. Sometimes tradition is a means of reassurance in an uncertain world; "Do not introduce innovations," warns a Taoist maxim. Tradition ranges from philosophy to fashion, from faith to manners, from the highest regions of polity to the humdrum level of a city sidewalk. (Will the last woman who saw the last man tip the last hat please stand up?) At least on the surface of U.S. life today, it is difficult to find any institution or idea that people dare uphold primarily in the name of tradition-not God, not country, and certainly...
Knights & Shotguns. Armed and encouraged by the court's rulings, the Justice Department could conceivably move to prosecute under federal law other rights murder cases, such as the sidewalk slaying of the Rev. James Reeb in Selma, the Birmingham church bombing in which four Negro girls died and the killing of Seminarian Jonathan Daniels in Hayneville, Ala. Indeed, FBI agents last week wound up an intense 76-day investigation in Mississippi with the arrest of 14 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were indicted under Section 241 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in connection with...
After last week's sidewalk encounter, a scuffle ensued. Graves and a fellow Negro were subsequently wounded by shotgun blasts from a car; accused of the shooting were Garcia's brothers, Carlos and Robert, who were later charged with assault with intent to kill. Word swiftly spread through Watts. Next afternoon, Negro dropouts hanging around a high school began lobbing rocks at Mexicans and other Caucasians driving by. One stone hurled by a Negro struck a white speech-correction teacher in the head, and-said onlookers-when police dragged the suspect from a barbershop, he yelled, "Police brutality...
...construction machinery chewed away at the hill in Nice, digging out the foundation for a new luxury apartment building. Suddenly one of the sidewalk superintendents erupted with excitement. "Stop!" he shouted at a bulldozer operator: "Don't let anyone do any work near this spot." Reluctantly the workman obeyed. Dr. Henry de Lumley, 30, an archaeological specialist in the late paleolithic civilization, had the authority of the French Ministry of Culture behind him, and among the stones scooped up by the bulldozer, he had recognized some hand-hewed tools of prehistoric...