Treasonous Clerks

Some years ago I tuned in to public television and saw -- and heard -- a performance of Brahms' German Requiem in honor of the heroes of the German Resistance, hosted by Bill Moyers from the pulpit of Riverside Church, from which, as it happens, I once addressed a Teachers College Commencement Convocation. My thoughts turned from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Martin Luther King, whose holiday would be the next day, with the following result:

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