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...anything, grown fresher. He does not act the part so much as consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop him down quick, then dey holler dat po' man up dere fightin' a go-rilla!" When white folks watch, Jefferson plays animal or vegetable. The 250-watt Satchmo grin flicks on at will, the massive shoulders shrug at circumstances beyond comprehension. But under the actor is the lava...
...year's economic slide could justifiably be called a recession, they may be arguing next year whether so weak a comeback should be certified a recovery. The strike at General Motors will distort the picture for the next six months or so. The walkout, Arthur Okun estimates, will chop $1 billion off the gross national product for each week it lasts, and give a misleading impression of a deepening slump. In early 1971, Okun adds, catch-up production by G.M. will paint an equally deceptive "rosy glow" on the economy. David Grove believes that this false picture will...
...made a National Celebration of Womanhood Day: each wife should wear her most frilly, feminine dress and should "sing before breakfast," serve her husband breakfast in bed and "tell him how great he is." Still more improbable is New York's Pussycat League, Inc., which believes "the lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." Its perfectly appropriate slogan is "Purr, Baby, Purr...
...could a generation have "the luxury of growing up in peace and security," as you put it, while its fathers were dying in World War II? I know a lot of Korean veterans who probably wish they'd known on Pork Chop Hill in the '50s that they "were not expected to fight or die for our country...
...chop down the apple tree you won't have any apple thieves," says Vice Squad Detective James M. Harrigan. Judge Charles W. Halleck made a more practical observation several weeks ago. He ordered that one convicted suburbanite's $148 fine be used to pay rehabilitation expenses for a twice-convicted prostitute who needed tuition for a keypunch operator's course. Said Halleck: "If men find out that they will have to pay to send these ladies of the evening to school, they might quit going out there...