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...pressed most actively for confirmation began to explain how rough his task had been. "When you try to defend a mediocre racist," he said ?and then he broke into laughter at how ridiculous that sounded. Maryland's Mathias thought at first that Carswell might "be getting a bum rap" from the kind of legal scholars who look down on lawyers who have not "been to Harvard," but decided to vote no after examining Carswell's record. Minority Leader Scott, influential with liberal Republicans, left most of the vote-hustling to aides...
...made an antic art of what he calls "confrontation politics." Kirk frankly describes himself as a "tree-shakin' son of a bitch," and he has proved it repeatedly in headline-grabbing performances that range from the 1967 Jacksonville rally, at which he faced down Black Nationalist Rap Brown, to his performance last January on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, where he appeared waving a petition against recent desegregation rulings...
There will be no planned speeches at the Festival. A free speaker's platform, on the Hyde Park model, will be set up for anyone to rap about anything he wants to put other members of the community onto. Hearing that there wouldn't be a lot of talking, one law professor said, "Good, I'll be there. It sounds like something my children will enjoy, so I'm sure I'll enjoy...
...Poets. Also from Africa came a tribal tradition of the poet as wiseman and prophet, interpreter of the past and seer of the future. According to Poet Nikki Giovanni: "There is no difference between the warrior, the poet, and the people. Like Stokely is a poet and so is Rap Brown...
...rap once. Mama isn't fooled by much, and so she undertook, with suspicious curling about her mouth, to tell Merilee the following: ". . . and those hippic girls you know, they're such dope fiends they get so hopped up on their dope you know what they do? they forget their own little babies and leave them in the streets that's what they do you know...