Word: alter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat is fundamentally a positive one. It seeks to shock the White American from his insulated world of false satisfaction about what little has been done to alter-basically the Negro's human situation. It seeks also to shock him from his irresponsible stance of taking for granted the Negro's plight, and from his belief nothing really earthshaking will occur among Negroes if their reality is not transformed in the near future. In short, Baldwin's aggressive--yet humane and sensitive--definition of the Negro's relationship to American society endeavors to bring White American to a proper comprehension...
...however, does not necessarily imply a black racist position. But that it should appear to do so--and in some instances may in fact become racist--is, I think, an inevitable part of the confusion and difficulties that we must expect to accompany greater efforts by Negroes to alter their situation. The socio-political change that these efforts involve is not, after all, the same thing as a discussion of current problems at a Sunday tea party for interracial students...
These two teams always add a couple of new plays to their repertoires before they face each other, but the new twists will not alter the basic style of play in Yale's case...
...move around in; and in the past few weeks two major events have combined to cramp his person and style badly. Two weeks ago it looked like political events in France were just going to follow their normal pattern: the President was going to overthrow Parliament and radically alter the Constitution. And he did both--but the results of his actions left de Gaulle in an ambiguous situation, in a world far removed from one ruled by the simple alternatives of "oui" and "non" which he favors...
...becomes clear-not new, but in this handling hard to shrug away. These poor creatures, isolated, inarticulate, fearful of showing their numbed feelings but more terrified still of dying without ever having been known to anyone, are vignettes of everyman-in foreboding miniature. In the prose-poetry of her alter ego, Author Frame asks her unanswered question...