Word: thenceforward
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...well-meaning attempt by paternalistic whites to help blacks "perform to the capacity of their arrested development." He urges the repeal of every major civil rights law in the land, including those that allow blacks to sit at lunch counters and use the same water fountains as everyone else. Thenceforward the government would be required to function in a race-blind manner, but private citizens and institutions, from taxicab companies to huge corporations, would be free to discriminate...
...Harrison Gray Otis, 48, late of the Union Army and-in 1886-editor of the Los Angeles Times (circ. 2,500), fired his editorial cannon ball into the boom-frantic town by the Pacific. To the pueblo settlement seething with rainbow chasers, this shot barked out a gruff prophecy: thenceforward, the Times and her guardians would man the lanyard of Los Angeles' destiny...
...Thenceforward, the Holmes house reverted to staidness. The Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...
...Thenceforward, the little priest lives like "a prisoner of the holy agony." He prays and prays. The pain in his stomach grows worse. One day he collapses, staring in terror and wonder at a vision of the face of Christ-"the face of a child, but without any lighting." A little later he succumbs to cancer of the stomach. He dies murmuring in ecstasy, "All is grace...
...sufficiently self-consistent so that it is possible to tell them apart. But the old Waltari charm is not there. The hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story by a trick of suspense...