Word: reade
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...second one. After the second one, a man sat at a table right up front and counted the money, gave people change, and finally reported the amount collected. All the while-this process took at least as long as the sermon-the choir hummed hymns and the preacher read form the Bible. After the money was counted, a man got up and said you had to give money to have God come into your hear. I think the comment was directed...
Funny things happen in elections in Wilcox. Dead white people vote for white candidates. Illiterate voters are not allowed to take people into the booths with them to read the ballots. And sample ballots are not given our to blacks...
...read the article, I pictured myself as having been a Charlie O. during air flights, but several of my fellow passengers also opened up. Perhaps we never had an "authentic dialogue" but an alternating series of monologues that fell on deaf ears. Ears deaf because of the secure knowledge that the fellow passenger would probably never cross paths with you again. For the moment you were together, going the same place. Complete reticence would be as absurd as complete loquacity in such a situation...
...local press did not exactly distinguish itself either. Initially it had great trouble with the candidate's name, which admittedly provides endless possibilities for exploitation. (The last name especially has good possibilities. Local high school students proved the most imaginative in this respect, trimming bumper stickers to read "Stud," and pasting them on their purple VW dune buggies.) Sometimes it came out Jerry, sometimes Gerald, and one paper used to call him Harry Stubbs...
...occurred to me that people who were not, in fact, committed to the SDS position would not be likely to distribute its handbills. It also occurred to me, as I read the Director's letter, that the student had misrepresented the CFIA's position. The Director says: "In view of past experience, there is no reason to expect that an SDS forum would be conducted in a manner conducive to serious and rational discussion." This appears to mean, not that the SDS people are incapable of logical debate, but that they probably would not conduct the meeting in a calm...