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Worthy is not very optimistic about today's world. "I think America is out of touch with deprived people in emotional, physical, and psychological senses. Eventually these people will insist that their needs be met, which will no doubt lead to violence. I have no faith in an economic system...

Author: By Joanthan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Man Worth Heeding | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

Given the complexity of his career, one wonders why Worthy never entered the political arena. He says he would have to deeply analyze himself for a complete answer, but he says that he never wanted to be overwhelmed by a particular political movement. Instead, journalism and academia became his conduits...

Author: By Joanthan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Man Worth Heeding | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

Worthy launched another exhaustive appeals campaign because he never wanted the "government to mess with me again. I was out to defeat them in the circles of public opinion and the courts." He accomplished the latter when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Act unconstitutional and overturned his...

Author: By Joanthan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Man Worth Heeding | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

Worthy berates himself for his one failure, in the aftermath of his many struggles against the system, to notice the dangers of citywide expansionist trends. Slowly, as the "tentacles" of the octopus reached into the rooms of his life, he came to realize that only a society which does not...

Author: By Inc $.; $. paperback, | Title: Fighting Back | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

Worthy's voice is angry; he has things he wants known--powerful ideas and principles which he believes are reducible, once the fight is enjoined, to such small sustaining acts as changing a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow...

Author: By Inc $.; $. paperback, | Title: Fighting Back | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

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