Word: breads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scope & Symptoms. Foreign observers of U.S. urban riots are frequently stunned at the vigor of the American poor. How, they wonder, can a looter claim to be hungry and oppressed, yet walk off with a color-television set as easily as if he were hefting a loaf of bread...
...will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind. For if the poor share anything it is oppressors: credit dentists and credit opticians; credit furniture stores and credit food markets where for half again as much as the affluent pay, stale bread and rank hamburger are fobbed off on the poor. Poverty spells the death of hope, the decay of spirit and nerve, of ambition and will...
...Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida who tools around the camp in a late-model Cadillac, earning his daily bread from a 10% surcharge on each worker's hourly wage, plus his own earnings as a laborer. Unlike his predecessor at Cutchogue, whose wife held the "liquor concession" and charged $1 for a pint of cheap, lemon-flavored wine (local price: 51¢), Isaiah is considered a pretty fair boss...
...third floor of Ferris Booth Hall was commandeered by the Strike Steering Committee and friends to serve as the nerve center of the anti-mobilization. The floors were filthy, marked by hundreds of crumpled-up leaflets. The rooms were temporary kitchens with loaves and loaves of bread and hot plates to heat canned spaghetti. Specially-appointed press agents handled snotty newsmen. "They can sure as hell wait until we're ready to talk to them, and be sure and keep them off this floor without appointments," Mark Rudd instructed them...
...only exhibitions "but a new kind of show." Actually, he adds, "I think of this place as much more a television studio than a gallery." He has already drawn up a pell-mell schedule calling for experimental films and plays, a production of Fire by New York's Bread and Puppet Theater, as well as exhibitions of cybernetic and advertising...