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...Does the postman deliver the mail a month late and not even look remorseful about it? Never mind, he kills snakes in Honor Tracy's backyard, and once, when she was giving a party, he bicycled three miles to bring her ice. Are Spanish nightclub acts and zarzuelas sometimes performed by stuttering septuagenarians, Goyaesque dwarfs, and faded, toothless beauties? It doesn't matter. It's more fun to watch the audience, such as one old man who was ogling the girls and groaning "with delight as an old dog does when his ears are fondled." Are Spain...
...Your statement that "despite its high purpose, the Negro revolution breeds violence and death" [July 3] must have been welcomed in the South, If the three young men had chosen to spend a less dedicated, more relaxed summer, if Postman William Moore had stayed off the highways, if the Negro girls had slept late and not attended their Birmingham church, and if Medgar Evers had never joined the N.A.A.C.P., there would still be violence and death in the South. There always has been...
Despite its high purpose, the Negro revolution breeds violence and death. Among its victims have been Baltimore Postman William Moore, shot on an Alabama highway while on a one-man civil rights march; Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, shot in the back by a bushwhacker; and those four Negro girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham church...
Nameless Shame. Von Salis has few such events to record: A visit to an abandoned chapel to put flowers on the altar or "a feast of reconciliation" (i.e., a chat) with a tardy postman are typical adventures. By common standards, Rilke did not "live" at all. The events of his life took place within his poetry...
...claim that Turks began the latest battle by wantonly firing into the crowded market square in the Paphos suburb of Ktima, British investigators are convinced that neither side deliberately started the fighting. The incident apparently began when a Greek shopkeeper, Kyriakhos Mavros, fired a revolver at a passing Turkish postman, Cevde Mazlum, wounding him in the back and arm. Thus sparked, Turks and Greeks positioned around the market all opened fire...