Word: alien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alien Whites...
...physical pleasure and equally delighted to pick up some extra cash to spend on his girl. But for Forrest the affair is unique: what begins as a distraction becomes an obsession-both with Marcello and with Rome. At last, realizing that he will always remain essentially an alien both to Marcello and to Rome, he breaks off the affair and returns to his wife in America. Though all this sounds like a conventional refurbishing of that shopworn literary theme, homosexuality, it is considerably more. Forrest and Marcello are really people in whose alien yet partially convergent experiences Author Windham explores...
LARRY YOUNG: INTO SOMETHIN' (Blue Note). A jazz organist who can produce a big sound without drowning the listener is a rare man, but Larry Young is deft enough to do it. He can also comment sensitively and even wryly on the instrument most alien to modern jazz...
...hotheads who could whip up last week's passions. Yet the Los Angeles Negro is incomparably better off than his cousin back home in the South. The biggest single cause for his rage and frustration lies probably in the very fact of his migration to an alien and fiercely competitive urban world in which the Negro's past miseries and future expectations have been callously exploited. Police Chief Parker squarely blames civil rights leaders for honing the Negro's sense of oppression. Says he: "Terrible conflicts are building up within these people. You can't keep...
...matter how accultered he becomes," said the associate editor of Fortune, "the Negro remains and alien in his won land...different because he is black...