Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YEAR OF THE YOUNG REBELS, by Stephen Spender. Mingling on the barricades with American and European student radicals, the Old Left poet and veteran of Spanish Civil War politics reports humanely on New Left ideals and spirit...
SONS OF DARKNESS, SONS OF LIGHT, by John A. Williams. In this novel set in 1973, a normally reasonable Negro civil rights leader hires a gunman to avenge the death of an unarmed black boy shot by a white New York City policeman. The result evokes the tragedy of a sleepwalking American society that can only be awakened by violence...
...Dogs. Many of the attacks, including that against Mississippi's WLBT, have risen from a common source: the United Church of Christ, a group long active in civil rights work. The Rev. Everett C. Parker, 56, director of the church's office of communications, has not only won a crucial appeals court ruling that citizens' groups have every right to oppose TV-license renewals, but has helped organize local groups to carry on such fights. Rather than risk being dragged before the FCC or into court, KTAL-TV of Texarkana recently agreed in a private contract with...
Recently the Civil Aeronautics Board, with its three Democrats voting aye and its two Republicans nay, recommended that Continental get routes from the East Coast through the Southwest to Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand. Last week Nixon again vetoed the award to Continental. He strongly suggested that the South Pacific route will go instead to financially troubled Eastern Air Lines, in which Laurance Rockefeller holds a substantial interest...
...reverse stereotypes. It vibrates to the grievances of a man rather than a people. Eugene Browning, Columbia graduate, ex-political-science professor and middle-class black, has put in half a lifetime being reasonable. As the story opens in 1973, he is No. 2 man in a moderate civil rights organization named the Institute for Racial Justice. But when a New York policeman shoots an unarmed 16-year-old black boy, all the reasonableness runs out of Browning, not so much in anger as in a final weariness...