File this under "They have to keep coming up with things." Today we have three entries that make up a PARTOF[a]SPEECH. The first, FOURSCOREAND, is, as you know, the start of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The second, ASKNOTWHAT, is drawn from the last portion of Kennedy's inaugural address. And the third, HAVEADREAM, is a part of a part of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech given, at the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Rereading these three speeches today is a sad endeavor. Even in their hopefulness, they cannot help but highlight the problems that have plagued this country from the beginning. The world is not so very different now. Though on paper this nation may have been conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all are created equal, freedom does not ring from the mighty mountains of New York, nor every hill and molehill of Mississippi. If only we really had been unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed... If America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
The world will little note, nor long remember what I say about this puzzle, but here goes anyway.
Misstep: GOTAlight before GOTAMATCH (Question from one smoker to another).
New to me: ROBOTSUMO (Engineering competition with two "battling" devices).
Favorite clue: Superman is one, notably (ALIEN). We think like to think of him as one of our own, a good citizen, but he cares about justice and truth and fairness, so really, how could he be an American.
Sigh.
Kennedy did not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation, but sometimes I wonder.
- Horace
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