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...Record sales rose from $744 million in 1964 to $830 million last year; classical music accounted for 15% of LP sales. The bestselling album for the year was Mary Poppins, the bestselling single Wooly Bully by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs...
...immediate goal, he said, is legislation to end "injustices to Negroes at the hands of all-white juries." For the jury is "the cornerstone of our system of justice. If its composition is a sham, its judgment is a shame. And when that happens, justice itself is a fraud, casting off the blindfold and tipping the scales one way for whites and another way for Negroes...
...devouring god Baal that dehumanized and depersonalized man, and Henry Ford I as a false prophet who "promised to solve all social problems but aggravated most of them." As Niebuhr saw it, Ford's boast of a $5-a-day wage was nothing but a sham, since most of his workers were employed only sporadically and had no insurance against unemployment, illness and old age. In the same pragmatic way, the slaughter of World War I made him turn with cold fury against the kind of Protestantism that believed in progress and the natural perfectibility of mankind, and talked...
...recurring themes of the speaker's charges were that the BRA engineered sham committees to represent neighborhood occupants, bulldozed neighborhoods that could be rehabilitated, and robbed the poor to line the pockets of the rich...
Five-Hour Day. At a recent conference on the subject, a surprising number of young rabbis spoke up to argue that Shemittah is so fraught with sham that the rules should be drastically modernized. One Orthodox farmer suggested that a corner of a field be left fallow as a symbolic reminder. Since the purpose of Shemittah is to allow more time for study and prayer, said another rabbi, the law could be fulfilled by limiting farm work to a five-hour...