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...least 100 black tenant farmers have been evicted by white landowners, and blacks still enter white-owned cafés by the back door-even though legal discrimination no longer exists. Whites have accepted black school enrollments up to 22% without much fuss, but when desegregation orders raise black representation to at least 66% in September, those whites who can afford the $400-a-year tuition will doubtless pour into the private cement-block Warrior Academy. One young teacher there explains: "There's so much low intelligence among the blacks...
Scene 3: The Bitter End Café in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, 1970. Jimmy Walker, 22, outlines the new black education: "Here's black history, here's where black people come from, black folks-and then they show us an Amos 'n' Andy rerun. Or chemistry class. That's where they show us how to make roach and ant killer...
Died. João Café Filho, 71, former President of Brazil, who as vice president under Getúlio Vargas assumed office upon the dictator's suicide in Aug. 1954, quickly won a reputation as a fair-minded administrator, dedicated to stabilizing Brazil's chaotic one-crop (coffee) economy, only to be forced into retirement by a heart attack after 15 months in office; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro...
...more than slightly alienated from each other, unmotivated in conventional terms, and obsessively concerned with self-expression. One boy insists that he wants to be a hoofer and comedian, though he is a pathetically inept dancer and his jokes fall flat. At one point, Joe (James Broderick) the café philosopher who dominates the stage, puts 27 sticks of gum in his mouth because he has always wanted to do it. When Saroyan says, "In the time of your life, live," one realizes almost eerily that there, 30 years ago, the cry was first raised about "doing your own thing...
Brancusi did not mingle with the café crowds, but he was obviously aware of what was going on. Upon receiving a commission to do a funerary monument in Rumania, he began work on a kneeling bronze woman. Starting with a violently agitated figure that Rodin might have been proud to acknowledge, Brancusi went through several successively simplified versions until he arrived at the motionless Prayer he finally cast. Though still conventional in form, the mourner's classic calm and smoothed-over details foreshadow aspects of Brancusi's mature work...