Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cadence. Some cynics call King "De Lawd." He does have an upper-air way about him, and, for a man who has earned fame with speeches, his metaphors can be downright embarrassing. For Negroes, he says, "the word 'wait' has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide," giving "birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration." Only by "following the cause of tenderheartedness" can man "matriculate into the university of eternal life." Segregation is "the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality," and it "cannot be cured by the Vaseline of gradualism...
...have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait...
...blind. "Acting is a means of doing what I want to do," he says, "which is living a normal life, and not the kind of stupid life most actors lead. I can't imagine not acting, but I'm in a very happy position. I can wait here in the country with the donkeys and the corgis, and pick and choose. I plan to do as I am doing, develop my little property, and have a little harem. Not a full-time harem, of course. That would be troublesome...
...animal business. I knew it would be a monkey. It didn't bother me. All I wanted to do was to survive. I feel wonderful." Feeling that way, Davis went home for Christmas with his four children, ages 13 to 19. "I'll just sit back and wait for the mailman," he said. With a Government pension he will no longer have to load bananas...
...tone is unfailingly pedestrian. When he misses his appointed train, Hardy dutifully writes to explain his absence, as on Oct. 12, 1892: "I have attended Tennyson's funeral-and find I cannot get back very well tonight-so I will wait till tomorrow-returning about the usual time-though possibly by the Salisbury train, about twenty minutes later than the 6:13. George Meredith was there-also Henry James, Huxley, etc." When Hardy becomes more solicitous, it is almost always to forestall a visit by his wife: "Though I should like to see you in London I feel...