Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters-some silly, some tragic-come into the Berkeley Barb, East Village Other, Los Angeles Free Press or any of 15 underground newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. Their language is raw, often misspelled, jangling with obscenities. A few are transparent put-ons. Most, though, are hippies' cries for help on medical matters. Dropping out of "straight" society provides no immunity to mankind's injuries and germs. Like everyone else, the members of the long-haired generation are often ignorant and afraid...
...America's proud traditions is the citizens' army. Another is the freedom of the nation's education institutions. Set up to guarantee the former, the Reserve Officers Training Corps is now under attack as a violation of the latter. To idealistic students and professors, ROTC has come to symbolize the university's "complicity" in alleged U.S. militarism, particularly the Viet Nam war. As such, it provides radical students with a highly visible target The ROTC, in fact, is a key target for the next wave of campus protests...
...stand by to prepare Allen's daily radio broadcasts (58 stations) and weekly television programs (43 stations). There is a record company (47 albums of sermons and gospel music), an airstrip (Cessna 150 at the ready), and a barnlike, 3,000-capacity church to hold the faithful who come by train, plane, bus and auto to attend each of Allen's twice-yearly, 17-day camp meetings. For those who want to stay, there is even a subdivision called Miracle Valley Estates, where the modest homes are dominated by Allen's own twelve-sided house of wood...
...special earlier this season. In a typical bit, Redd Foxx told Slappy White of the first Negro athletic-scholarship winner at the University of Mississippi -"He's a javelin catcher." White observed that Oct. 27 is a Negro holiday - "That's the day when the new Cadillacs come out." In one sight gag, George Kirby stretched out on a beach mat, opened a bottle of suntan oil and slathered it on the pink soles of his feet...
Obviously, the networks are still caught somewhat nervously between the stereotypes of Supernegro and a campy version of old Stepin Fetchit. Digby Wolfe, a former writer on the Laugh-In and Soul shows, warns that the "here-come-de-judge syndrome can be very dangerous, because it is apt to convince white audiences that Negroes are, after all, just kidding." He misses the point. No matter what the show or how limp the humor, the "Yassuh, boss" jokes are still, basically, satire...