| || ounce, gavel, donkey, paddle, good deed.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
14 comments:
FLN, Sandy ~
Oh, I get it now.
Owen posted “feisty” as the 6th clue word of J6 yesterday. But I had “stiffy,” using the letters he provided.
Funny, that either word provided the necessary letters, “s” and “f.”
“Stiffy” may be a vulgarism, but it is a real word, and not too difficult for us Chaucerians to recognize.
~ OMK
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
This is what Ben Franklin did adjure.
Let us teach our young how to behave,
And a judge's gavel won't brand them a knave.
~><~
Don't bray like a donkey about your good deeds.
Doing them in secret plants better seeds.
The humble can be strong, and humility's a virtue.
Don't seek acclaim of others, paddle your own canoe.
The administration of the City and all its grateful citizens may honor the dear generous lady by abiding by the provisions of her endowment. In particular, they should heed her dictate that no statuary or memorial shall be erected to honor a Confederate leader or, indeed, anyone who bore arms against the United States.
~ OMK
I hastily inked AGAVE on #2. Fortunately, the riddle-solution was apparent and I was able to pound the correct word into my head.
Every once in awhile I have an epiphany or "See the light". I attended the POTUS Tampa rally a few years back and was stunned. A boisterous crowd that roared with every Trumpeian syllable was brought to stunned silence by one word.
And that was LINCOLN*. Yes the Confederacy lives and although I understand the sentiment of "Down with the statues, flag or any public memorial", perhaps Owen's sentiment in the first poem is wiser eg rapprochement.
Or... Choose your enemies and your fights. Or... Every statue removed equals 1000 automatic weapons purchased.
WC (opining)
* He compared his greatness to Lincoln's eg He used the name positively.
Wilbur ~ I lived for over ten years in Richmond, the former Confederate Capital, on Stuart Avenue, just a block or two from that awesome statue of Lee. Despite the many monuments, I found little devotion to the lost cause. The South is no longer a monolith, no longer in love with its Jim Crow past.
But it is obvious that there are pockets of die-hard resistance. On the other side, along with well justified desires to remove statues, it seems to me things can become counter-productive. Witness the recent attempt to attack a monument to President Grant. Why? Because he once owned a slave. One.
One who had been given to him by his wife's family, a man whom he, in turn, freed.
Never mind that he was the Union general who literally defeated Lee and his army.
So please notice that I made a point in today's hint of specifying no memorials to those who bore arms against the U.S. Grant is thereby exempted.
This might earn a pass for Washington as well.
~ OMK
Here in New Mexico, we have a different quandary. Statues of the Spanish conquistadors are being toppled. The Native Americans are doing it, although descendants of the Spanish are still here, and were the victors of those old wars. And some of those Indians still fought and lost against the US when the Anglos took over this territory.
Enjoyed a great start to my week with a perfect crossword, Sudoku, Kenken, and then an absolutely delightful Jumble. Loved seeing the cartoon in color with picture of the new green park on the wall. Four easy words and a very easy solution made for a final gift, along with Owen's neat poem and Ol'Man Keith's fun gloss.
Enjoyed the jumble. It wasn't difficult, though the third clue gave me a momentary pause.
Owen, your ability to create coherence from miscellany always amazes me, and no more so than today. Loved your poem.
Owen, you point up how complex this new iconoclasm is becoming. Recently, Princeton University chose to remove the name of Woodrow Wilson from its Public Policy School.
This, because Wilson, a former president of the same university, was responsible for segregating branches of government when he was US president.
(I held a Wilson Fellowship years ago; I wonder if I must re-name it on my CV?)
This morning we read in the LA Times that the name of our local SoCal airport--"John Wayne"--is under attack by petition for racist comments the actor made several decades ago.
Neither of these moves is the action of vigilantes--like those tearing down statues--but of reasoned, committee driven or legislative procedures.
Our nation is having a difficult time trying to come to terms with the sins of our ancestors.
It is not easy understanding how our founding "fathers" could be so enlightened and own slaves at the same time. Or "bring civilization" to the indigenous while occupying the land. Or fight for survival and be fair to the victims.
Who was it who said, "The complexity of human nature is not readily aswered by summary action"?
~ OMK
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Ol'Man Keith.
I was going to add, Owen, that bearing arms against the US is a distinctive feature of militant treason & therefore an excellent way to decide whose statues deserve to fall.
But then you mention the Native Americans who fought the US Cavalry. Do I really want their statues to come down?
Hmm.
But then again, just how many statues are we worried about? How many Indians have any statues at all?!
Yikes! I guess we better start building some--if we want to tear them down!
~ OMK
Not to speak of #MeToo. "Consensual sex" no longer exists. "Safe sex" is getting a written notarized contract detailing exactly what contact is allowed, when and after said sex, acknowledgement that it was "proper".
J'accuse is looking pretty good vs these dated Willy Nilly accusations.
And, why not rename the Fulbright Scholarship program. He voted against the Civil Rights agenda. Or of course he wouldn't have been a Senator to vote at all nor do any non race related good works.
WC
Wow, Wilbur, as a woman, I feel compelled to say that your remark about MeToo sounds disappointingly biased and insensitive.
I won't get into the MeToo issue. Not gonna bite.
But I think it a strange coincidence that the two graduate fellowships I was fortunate enough to win--the Wilson and, yes, a Fulbright!--were both named for racist Southerners.
Why is it that these two were both either honoring or honored by educational grant programs?
Why were they connected to education--when nowadays universities are consistently under fire from the bigoted right?
Just wondering...
~ OMK
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