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...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
Another freshman, Jon Adolph, had a more vivid picture of what will happen come October...
...They are going to lose in the seventh game [of the World Series] and Matt Young will pitch a no-hitter," Adolph said...
...quickly learned, of course, why there was only one woman ahead of her who had been able to claim the highest honor in the profession. The book tells the story of the Times women, from McCormick in the 1920s, who was hired after the death of Times founding publisher Adolph Ochs (who had refused to hire women while he was alive), to the women of the present. The newsroom which Robertson entered in 1955 was one entirely unwilling to help her realize her dreams; the few women who were allowed into the Times, she tells, were relegated to the women...
...KENNEDY CENTER HONORS (CBS, Dec. 26, 9 p.m. EST). Washington's black-tie crowd pays tribute to another passel of show-business greats. This year's honorees are Gregory Peck, Roy Acuff, Broadway and film veterans Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the dancing Nicholas Brothers and choral director Robert Shaw...