Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CUSTER DIED FOR YOUR SINS, by Vine Deloria. A savagely funny and perceptive book by a young member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe examines the modern plight of red men beset by white plunderers and progressives alike. Recommended without reservations...
...textbook that called Patrick Henry an "agitator." Maddox said he had been raised to think of Henry as a hero. The audience of educators and school-board members replied with scattered applause. Cross burning may be a dying art in the South, but if Maddox has his way, book burning will replace...
...these quarrels with Climbing Willie's Ladder are fairly minor and best ignored. Alan Lebowitz has had the chutzpah to write a nice book about a not-so-nice world. And these days that takes not only chutzpah but some extraordinary compassion as well...
...wife had spoken with all the cliches that were in the book. But they had to be answered as if they were questions that one had never met before. They had to be faced as if they were a real confrontation...
...Back in his room at the end of the same day a Harvard senior entered this into his personal log-book. "I realized just several minutes ago that I am coming close to the afterlife, the real life. I am not scared but I am apprehensive...