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...human race remains in abject misery, not properly clothed or fed, in lives subject to arbitrary and senseless manipulations by politicians or violence at the hands of police, hoodlums or revolutionaries? Certainly the possibilities and the inherent nobility of man are stupendous, but it is small help to crow about it when the celebration of his theoretic greatness does nothing to help him find himself as an ordinary human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...AFRAID of a Non-Three-Legged-Crow Bookstore owner...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...known, one to crow unduly about my successes, but those who have abused me over the past five weeks, well, I hope they're all suitably chagrined...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: SPORTS of the 'CRIME' | 11/2/1968 | See Source »

...first scene), whose gutsy voice is essential to the show's feeling of life projected directly from the soul with no stops along the way. Often Prince uses her and her companions to move along the action, as when black-frocked women chanting a low lament about "the crow" before Hortense's death scene become ravaging parasites themselves at the scene's end, even before their victim finishes her last gasps. As if this weren't enough, Prince shows the women hideously climbing up the platform, evil beasts holding Hortense's gaily colored parasols against the background of lighting designer...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Zorba | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...more indignant over the racial connotations of law-and-order rhetoric. William V. Patrick, head of New Detroit, a peace-keeping committee formed after the riot, protests: "It's a horrible phrase, a euphemism for racial repression. First you had slavery. Then you had Jim Crow laws. Then it was called 'separate but equal.' Now it is called 'law and order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FEAR CAMPAIGN | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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