Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people in this country with the graveness of the Negroes' plight might be to threaten them. "The longer you work for Civil Rights, the more radical you become," a Negro leader mused recently. "You begin to realize that white people who are supposed to be on your side aren't even listening to what we say. They're content to let things remain as they are while they talk about progress, or say 'isn't it a shame' and then forget about the whole thing...
...south Vietnam as technical advisers under orders to shoot only if shot at, are now flying actual combat missions. Until recently these U.S. air force personnel had been limited to transporting soldiers and supplies in helicopters--bananas, the natives call them--to the front. But apparently there just aren't enough South Vietnamese pilots around to do all the fire-bombing and strafing missions themselves...
When the marshal wanders off to bed, Steinbaum tries to salvage some self-esteem by seducing the marshal's 22-year-old mistress. But it is she who brutally seduces him. "Now here you are," she tells him, "and you aren't Papa, and I don't need to be afraid of my position with you, so I use you a little, I play with you." Just so has she played with all the marshal's flunkies, as if she were the marshal's accomplice in debasing them. In the grey, foggy dawn, Steinbaum staggers...
During the first three scenes, Genet doesn't repeat himself enough to spoil his gamy jokes. If you aren't too squeamish, you will laugh when the Executioner (Frederick Q. Rice) reaches under the Whore-thief's dress and claims to have found a flashlight, bearskins and several pairs of socks in her "notorious Kangaroo pocket." If that kind of thing bothers you, stay home. There's plenty of it all the way through...
...things. It's football on Saturday afternoon and "pot" that night. It's all there to be tasted by the 17,000 undergraduates, and if all 17,000 these are not living in ivory towers, that may be because Harvard take 4,500 off the top and there just aren't enough in the world to go around. Michael Gettelman, 1L University of California...