Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft, Senator Thomas Mclntyre described him as one who would "honor draft dodgers and deserters." Governor John King declared that any significant vote for McCarthy "would be greeted with cheers in Hanoi." Radio commercials at tacked "peace-at-any-price fuzzy thinkers who say 'Give up the goal, burn your draft card and surrender...
...have known all along: that the processes and structures of American politics are illegitimate to the black community. A further marginal extension of the welfare state is not the answer. We will no longer be absorbed by the integrationist ethic. This has nothing to do with 'honkey' talk or 'burn baby, burn.' This directly and specifically means the alleviation of black dependency; it is incumbent upon black people to control their own communities, because if they don't somebody else will...
...both stripped to the waist, both black as the night, dance with torches in each hand. They pass the torches over their bodies and let the flames lick their faces. They walk on hot coals and seem to wash their bodies in the fire--which does not burn because the voodoo god protects his dancers...
...others are characters, shadows of her illumination. I call her a witch, but she is not a promiscuous variation on Sinister Madonna (the Hunter girls?), classic marble zombie who ruled with an iron broomstick. No, Desire tells of human witches and the witchcraft of love. Strange fires burn here, and one could look a long time without understanding. Apparently Anastasia is destroying herself. Others come to pillage, sometimes to help, and lo! discover that they have been deceived. No warm sweets from the blaze. In this parable of bad love she takes the best of them as fuel...
...violence by which one class overthrows another." Then she avows, with straight face: "I believe in China's violent revolution, but I couldn't kick a nun." Sick jokes abound: "Saigon is the only city in the world where garbage stands on street corners and they burn people." And symbolism: one scene shows the cast floundering in the mud of the Thames estuary-supposedly signifying the U.S. bogged down in Viet...