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Another King protégé, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, offered a sterner message in a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. King was not merely a non-threatening dreamer, said Jackson. "Dr. King was not assassinated for dreaming but for acting and challenging the government." He went on to lambaste President Reagan for failing to support any of King's efforts during his lifetime...
...Durantaye was even closer in age to his students at Cornell, where he says it was difficult to maintain a professional boundary. “You have to fight that temptation and be a little colder, a little sterner than you might otherwise be,” says de la Durantaye...
...Durantaye was even closer in age to his students at Cornell, where he says it was difficult to maintain a professional boundary. “You have to fight that temptation and be a little colder, a little sterner than you might otherwise be,” says de la Durantaye...
...movies? From the beginning, they were considered, in the words of Catholic doctrine, an occasion of sin. The Catholic Legion of Decency was more notable for proscribing movies than promoting them. Some of the sterner Christian sects forbade filmgoing. And that was when Hollywood still produced religious films, from uplifting tales of jolly priests (Bing Crosby in Going My Way) and selfless sisters (Audrey Hepburn in The Nun's Story) to outright miracle plays like The Song of Bernadette, with Jennifer Jones as a French girl who had a vision at Lourdes...
...secrecy, high-handedness and overly "presidential" style. But there was no arguing with success, and some historians believe that just as Jefferson was able to make use of Adams' Navy, so Madison, when he became President, was able to deploy Decatur's Navy, battle hardened and skillful, in the sterner combat of the War of 1812. Those who like to look for lessons for today might care to note that Jefferson did not act unilaterally until he was satisfied that European powers would not join his coalition and that he did not seek to impose a regime change...