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Drapes resented any comparison with zoot-suiters. "Everybody knew what zoot-suiters were-draft dodgers, guys that hung around street corners," explained Roy. "But guys that wear pegs nowadays aren't bums. It's just a mode of dress." "Cut out that mode of dress stuff," yelled another. "It's just sharp dressing." The city of Baltimore saw it differently. Said one official, explaining the ban: "Extreme dress leads to poor behavior...
...Morrison's union of churches would "recognize one another's ministries and sacraments" and would be organized on four levels. In the local church, no visible major changes would be necessary. "Each local church would determine its own mode of worship and administer baptism and the Lord's Supper according to its own tradition...
...spite of every surface indication to the contrary, there are prophets among us who see our catastrophic cultural situation in the West as bringing us nearer and nearer to the threshold of an age ... of Christian laymen permeating the world with an inward spiritual religion which would touch each mode of its life...
...city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards; why should he take offense at our meager mode of life...
...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...