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...Midlands provided Wright with a ready-made clientele. For his part, he found fascinating the scenes that more aristocratic painters scorned-a group of experimenters around an early air pump, the drama that the glaring light of a forge gives to blacksmith and bystanders. Light was an apt symbol for an age of enlightenment. Painter James Northcote, a contemporary, called Wright "the most famous painter now living for candlelights"-not to mention firelight and moonlight, which Wright often played off in the same picture, as he did in The Blacksmith's Shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Midlander | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...most concerned and thoughtful blacks with the often professed, but too rarely fulfilled, good intentions of white leaders and white institutions. At a time when blacks feel they are being further repressed, rather than liberated, they are turning inward, but this does not dismay them. In Jesse Jackson's apt summation: "There is still reason for optimism. But it is not based upon what the white man is going to do. It is based upon what we are going to do?and upon what we are going to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson: One Leader Among Many | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...still too young to assume a black leadership role on a national scale. He rightfully resents white journalists who portray him as the heir to King or the rival to Abernathy. If S.C.L.C. were to seek a new leader today, the Atlanta-based organization would not be apt to reach outside the South. Until he decided to run for Congress, the most likely

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson: One Leader Among Many | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...Seven out of ten Italians polled recently in a public-opinion survey were disgusted enough to say that they were willing to vote temporary power to an "honest, energetic and disinterested" dictator. In moments of great frustration, traffic jams or trains that do not run on time, Italians are apt to snap that "If lui were here, this wouldn't happen." Lui-"he" in Italian-is the nation's last dictator. Benito Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Soloists | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...that proposition); white men secretly want black women (74%); whites have a mean and selfish streak in them (65%); whites are physically weaker than blacks (55%); whites are less honest than blacks (50%); white people need to have somebody like blacks to lord it over (49%); whites are more apt to catch diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: How It Looks to Blacks | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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