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...harsh memory lingers. "People are embarrassed this happened here," says one member of the district attorney's office in Greensboro. Many now fear that the trial will further harm the city's reputation. Says James Wright, the city's human relations director: "We're concerned how this event will be used as a stage. Lots of eyes are on Greensboro...
From the start, the conference organizers were determined to keep to the middle of the road and not fire up the conservatives, who were busy holding press conferences denouncing the meeting. Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund, told the delegates: "The issue is not whether government interferes; it already does. Our job is to make sure specific governmental and private-sector actions help, not hurt children and strengthen, not weaken families." The conference, insisted its delegates, would not demand big spending programs but would seek ways of aiding families through measures like tax credits...
...Wright's mercurial Mayor leads the American Rep actors in their flight from traditional-conversational exchange, alternating with precise control between an entirely non-verbal, vacuous moan and a galloping torrent of words tripping over each other in their eagerness to overwhelm the listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice...
...answer is invariably yes. After three years of inundating radio air waves with his "What's Wrong with America" sermons, Eddie Chiles is now leading a drive to unseat Fort Worth Congressman and House Majority Leader Jim Wright. "Jim Wright is a socialist," he charges. Replies Wright condescendingly: "I just have to feel sorry for anyone who is always looking for things to be mad about." Chiles accuses Wright and other Washington officials of wild Government spending, runaway regulation and tyrannical bureaucracy...
...transitions and shifting modes. It was art's first response to the torrent of signs unleashed by a new technology. Not for nothing did Picasso inscribe "Our future is in the air" on several of his cubist still lifes; tellingly, Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbur," after Wilbur Wright. "The world has changed less since the time of Jesus Christ," remarked the French writer Charles Péguy in 1913, "than it has in the last 30 years." Picasso and Braque took it for granted that reality had changed more than art, but their relation...