Word: cliches
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...relationship." Thus slighting the tough and painful realities of the problem posed, the film takes aim at the usual clay pigeons and sitting ducks. But except for one brutal police officer, the Midwestern town where these events take place is seemingly untouched by ordinary everyday race prejudice. In a cliché scene that emphasizes the childlike purity of their love, the couple romp in the park playing tag and hopscotch, and steal their first kiss at the foot of the Civil War memorial. Once married, they move out to the farm with his wonder ful parents, soon have a baby...
...economics played a hand, perhaps proving the validity of the current cliché that ultimately the bridge between black and white will be green-the color of money. The land speculation collapsed. Apartments went empty, even after rent cuts. Finally, a group of Negroes got into a house on 134th Street. Later, the Equitable Life Assurance Society gave in and sold "Strivers' Row," a magnificent row of brownstones on 139th Street that had been designed by Stanford White. The houses had 14 rooms and two baths, French doors and hardwood floors, but Equitable unloaded them for $8,000 apiece...
DUTCHMAN, by LeRoi Jones. In a New York subway car, a white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed clichés and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
...local grotesques abound. But although Fiddlersburg has been condemned to death, the sentence does not (Samuel Johnson to the contrary) result in wonderfully concentrating its collective mind. On the contrary, an aeolian cavern of Southern garrulity is opened up and the air is thick with all the Confederate clichés about honor, guilt, familial dooms and expiations, the Civil War and slavery. There is much speculation on the quintessential nature of Southernness. "Lonesomeness" is one explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most...
...idiomatic rhetoric, a serious and moving novel has not been created. At the book's end, Brad Tolliver is left in a convulsion of romantic agony, thinking, in the usual important italics, "There is no country but the heart." This seems to be a mere cliché until examination proves it something less than that-an untruth. Surely if Flood has any solid theme, it is that the physical shape of a loved object-in this case, Fiddlersburg-is important, that its loss is irrevocable, and that the spirit cannot make do without the flesh. In an understanding...