Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARCHIE AND HIS NEW PALS (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Archie, Reggie, Jughead, Veronica, Big Moose and a new character, Sabrina, the Teen-age Witch, come to animated life from the pages of the comics...
...riot have yet suffered a second big outbreak; in the curious chemistry of violence, they seem to have achieved at least a temporary kind of immunization. No one pretends that the problems of the nation's blacks have been solved, and no one yet dares predict what may come after the Thermidor pause is over.* But governments and ghettos alike have become more sophisticated and skillful at handling their common difficulties. Expressing a widespread view, Jack Meltzer, director of the University of Chicago Center for Urban Studies, observes: "The black community realizes that riots hurt them more than help...
...strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race war on the white man's doorstep led bridge-playing suburban housewives to sign up for marksmanship practice. It was a vision amply fueled by the unbridled rhetoric of black militants, but it has not come to pass...
...black pride, and the efforts it has inspired, should be ultimately thwarted, the present mood could suddenly change, and all the old bitterness and violence could come back redoubled by a new sense of failure. If whites in industry, in labor unions, in government, indeed everywhere, decided that the relative calm in the ghetto meant that they could relax rather than press ahead with fresh help, welcoming the blacks into all parts of American society, then the result could be racial chaos far worse than any the U.S. has yet known...
...apotheosis of the antihero, Flashman never loses. This could be come boring, but does not, chiefly be cause for him the wages of sin are well above union scale. Trapped in a hill fort by thousands of screaming Ghazis, he struggles to reach the Union Jack...