Word: wilkinson
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...James D. Wilkinson, head tutor of History and Literature, said Bosmag's advice to read one volume of Proust and say you are concentrating in History and Literature would not fool any Harvard students. "A clever History and Lit person would deny having read any Proust, but would really have read all seven volumes in French," he said...
...from Tuscaloosa, Ala. But his group has been waning in influence in the past few years. The South's most visible klavern now is the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which has about 2,500 gun-toting, violence-talking members. Their imperial wizard is Bill Wilkinson, 36, a former electrical contractor from Denham Springs, La., who travels from city to city in a private plane, recruiting members and staging demonstrations...
Complains Wilkinson: "The Government is giving all the gravy to Negroes and other minorities who have not earned it." But blacks are not the only targets. Says he: "This is not just a racist, nigger-hating organization...
...more complex than that." Indeed, Wilkinson's Invisible Empire also hates Indochinese refugees, Indians and Hispanics...
...Wilkinson added that all History and Lit professors are already under a "double obligation, with their first allegiances lying elsewhere...