Word: thanking
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Maryland. Liberal Republican Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. can thank an indefatigable Irishman for sending him to the Senate. The vote for Independent George P. Mahoney, an eight-time loser of Wallace-type opinions, cut into the total for liberal Democratic Incumbent Daniel B. Brewster. Winner Mathias, 46, a hard-working House member since 1961, has backed civil rights, education bills, Medicare, Appalachian aid, rent supplements and even rat control...
...Thank you for your superb Essay on the "everyday activist" [Oct. 18]. Finally, someone has pointed out that constructive dissent can and does exist, that for every militant demonstrator there is a "disrupter for good" who contributes far more to our society than do all the yippies from Berkeley to Columbia. Allow me to speak for the doers of my generation with these lines from the Beatles' latest release, Revolution...
Last August, during an evening service at the white frame Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name at Big Stone Gap, Va., Oscar Pelfrey. 65, stood before the congregation holding a pair of writhing timber rattlesnakes. "I believe, Jesus, O Jesus, I believe-thank you, Jesus!" cried Pelfrey, a lay minister of the church. Suddenly, one of the rattlers struck him on the left temple. Taken home, he refused medical attention and died six hours later...
...should be praised to the skies. By which I don't mean to invite a chain of one-man Bernard Shaw impersonations, but of other free entertainments equally worthwhile. A tall order, maybe, but not hopelessly impractical. Not quite. Even though the audience had a corporate windfall to thank for last night's open house, more of the same could conceivably come about through the long-term machinations, of the English faculty and the Loeb administration, particularly if their efforts were backed up by a small allotment of funds for that express purpose...
...Well, I want to thank you for the frankness and the interview and everything...