Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buckley appeals to what I would call casual bigots. Most casual bigots would not say anything impolite to a Negro but would quickly sell their homes "if one moved in on the block." Casual bigots want, above all, stability; that means middle class, all-white neighborhoods and schools. Politicians can persuade most casual bigots to support civil rights legislation, but the prospect of ever-increasing Negro demands has made them profoundly uneasy. They have seized upon the crime issue, which to them means Negro violence, as an outlet for their incoherent fears...
...abstract expressionism received its first definitive testing on the auction block. The creative heyday of the movement is over; the question was, how much of it survives in cash values Of 20 paintings, 13 belonged to Robert C. Scull a New York taxicab-fleet owner who has embraced pop art. His purpose m selling was to bankroll his new foundaion to support younger artists with-dealers. "Let the oldtimers pay for tomorrow," he said. They did. Top price -$37,000-was for Willem de Kooning's 1955 Police Gazette; Barnett Newman's Tundra, consisting of a red horizontal...
...Lumet crowds the screen with strong, spare imagery built around the fearful mound. After a ghastly ordeal on the hill, filmed from the sweaty side of a gas mask, one prisoner dies, hounded to his doom by a sadistic guard. Subsequently, the entire camp boils over in a cell-block riot that becomes a triumph for the sergeant major-and for Actor Andrews, who struts through the scene with malevolent skill, clearly a match for the best of movie badmen...
Speaking on "The South: What Now?", Carter also sug-tested that lagging interest in voter registeration drives will make progress in civil liberties difficult. Now that it is possible to register, he said, the tedious block by block of recruiting voters will be unexciting and less satisfying than earlier civil rights work...
...After the kickoff, B.C.'s Tim Graham, who had been volleying long passes into the Harvard secondary all afternoon, faded back and hit end John Eagan for a 66-yard touchdown play. B.C.'s Dave Bennett cut down Stargel with a beautiful block to clear the way. But the kick for the P.A.T. missed, and the game ended...