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...Morning, the first and best, a Negro family takes a miraculous pill that turns them Caucasian overnight. The father and mother immediately start putting down their black neighbors, but their son and daughter refuse to join in the whiteballing. When a racist threatens them, they angrily announce that black is not only beautiful but necessary, smear him with black paint and begin advancing, tarbrushes in hand, on the audience. Playwright Israel Horovitz thoroughly comprehends Freud's dictum that laughter is a release from tension. With fusillades of obscenities and insult humor, he keeps the audience too jittery and hysterical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Three Authors in Search of an Act | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...this reduces crime or death rates." Other preventive measures were linked to the predictability of assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity." (Richard Lawrence, for instance, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, thought that he was Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assassinations: A Warning Five Years Later | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Negro stereotype created by TV commercials derives at least in part from the notion that white buyers "won't go for actors who have very Negroid features. What we all see are the very attractive Negroes who, if you bleached their skins white, you'd think were Caucasian." Adds one agency talent director: "If they sound like Negroes, they haven't got a chance. They have to look like Negroes and sound like white people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: Crossing the Color Line | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...though they occasionally stray to the scalp, eyelashes and other thickets of body hair). They use their powerful jaws to feed leisurely on the blood of their hosts for hours at a time. For whites they are particularly irksome because their yellowish-grey color is a natural camouflage on Caucasian skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parasites: Maddening Itch | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...great detective leans over the body on the floor of the overdecorated flat. "I think I'm going to be sick," says his young assistant. "No, you're not," the detective tells him. "Tense your muscles and take notes: nude Caucasian male, penis cut off and lying on floor, head crushed, multiple stab wounds, index finger and thumb of right hand missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Detective | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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