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Racial tensions in Birmingham culminated in 1963 when four black girls died in the bombing of a black Baptist church. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Morgan delivered a speech denouncing Birmingham's white leadership for encouraging a resort to violence. He soon left town--in the face of threats on his life...
Despite his distrust of the current state of legal education and public vigilance, Morgan said he turns to them as his last resort--with a little regeneration from "individual folks." "My whole experience has taught me to be hopeful," he told the students. "Educated people don't do the right thing unless they're confronted. You've got to learn to use the law as a weapon...
Rumor will remain in place as caretaker while trying to form a new center-left coalition. Failing that a new Premier might have to resort to a one-party minority government. But the country's problems may be too much for such a government. Not only is there rampant inflation, widespread unemployment and an energy crisis, but Italy faces a spring referendum on repeal of a three-year-old divorce law that could split Italians along religious lines...
...million, half the equity of a $100 million urban complex in downtown Atlanta, two blocks from Peachtree Street. The project will include a Hilton hotel, offices and a shopping mall. Kuwait Investment reportedly has also bought a South Carolina island intending to build a luxury resort...
Equal Reality. Thus every detail of the moldings, mullions and floorboards in The Invisible World, 1954, is rendered with scrupulous, not to say stolid exactitude: it is a real room looking on a real sea in (one imagines) some provincial resort on the Belgian coast. But what is that boulder doing there with every pore and crack of its surface emulated in Magritte's slow, gray pigment to remind us of its equal reality? It is intolerable: no metaphor provides an exit, no rational explanation will do, while the very technique of Magritte's drawing and painting keeps...