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...often tolerate wild men even within his own organization. Perhaps the most outspoken of these "Mau Mau," as they are called by responsible civil rights leaders, is the N.A.A.C.P.'s Cecil Moore in Philadelphia. Moore pours his venom on everyone: "The Urban League was created to be a beggar. CORE is made up of an infinitesimal number of Negroes and an even lesser number of frustrated whites who are trying to salve their guilt. Half of all social workers are queer...
Harry has deserted his girl Jeanie after arranging an abortion for her; he has become the pimp-lover of a whore; and now he is choking and robbing a blind beggar. "God will punish you!" cries the beggar. "God, huh?" says Harry. "Ask God to give you a new pair of eyes...
Lazarillo (Marco Paoletti) begins life under a dark cloud: his impoverished mother sends him off with a blind beggar who promises to teach him the ways of the world. First lesson: the beggar tells Lazarillo to put his ear to a stone sculpture of a bull and listen: "You will hear a great noise inside it." When Lazarillo gullibly does as he is told, the beggar slams his soft young head against the hard stone. He knocks more sense into the boy than he intended to. At the first chance, Lazarillo slyly stands the old blind brute in front...
...Jump!'' he hollers. The beggar jumps, crashes into the column, falls down with a fractured skull...
...Beggar Nations." In the past year, however, a broad re-examination of foreign aid has been going on in the U.S., and in the course of it, coherent concepts have emerged. A thoughtful article by Morgenthau in the American Political Science Review last June helped get the re-examination going. He called for tougher-minded selectivity in the handing out of economic development aid. Some nations. he wrote, "are bum and beggar nations'" that cannot really make use of development aid unless they undergo a "miraculous transformation of their collective intelligence and character." Above all, he argued that...