Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hodding Carter III, associate editor of the racially liberal Delta Democrat Times of Greenville, Miss., and a Nieman Fellow, will speak at 5 p.m. today in Cabot Hall. His topic will be "The South: What Now?" At 3:30 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library, Charles Morgan Jr. an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, will speak on "Operation Southern Justice...
...Lyndon losing his touch? Not really. But as old Capitol Hill Veteran Johnson well knows, Congress grows balkier with every day a session drags on beyond Labor Day-and adjournment is not yet in sight. While home rule for Washington is an endlessly controversial topic, congressional unrest undoubtedly contributed to defeat of Lyndon's bill...
...writing a novel. Novelist Truman Capote, on the other hand, yearns to report. For a long time he wanted to raise reporting to an art by re-creating some event with a novelist's insight, sympathy and exactitude. The trouble was, he could not find the right topic. Then one day in 1959, he was leafing through the New York Times when he noticed a headline, EISENHOWER APPOINTEE SLAIN. He read the story of the senseless killing of Wheat Farmer Herbert Clutter and his family, and he suddenly realized that he had his theme. Why not do a crime...
...Carter is far from the easy-going Southern planter who chokes on his gin-and-tonic the minute you mention "Negro." He's one of the few people, north or south, black or white, who would rather listen than talk to you about civil rights, even if the topic is his own back yard. The most fatuous polemic brings only a smile, a twinkle of his grey-green eyes, and a friendly "Hell, you know better than that." If you get out on a ideological limb, he'll case you down with a shaggy dog story or a two-ounce...
...labor organizer and radio commentator. Now as CORE's chief planner and spokesman, he makes over 200 speeches a year, but never uses notes or a text. "I haven't time to prepare them," he claims. Only as he approached Burr B did he ask for the exact topic and then he spoke extemporaneously for 45 minutes to a audience which twice gave him a standing ovation...