Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nigel Davenport is a steady Bothwell to Miss Redgrave, and Trevor Howard, as William Cecil, is always fun to watch, even though not at his best. The rest of the cast appear to have been plucked from the back room of Madame Tussaud...
...chapters which already exist (which have 10-20 members each) represented a fairly even cross-section of American communities. Only the South was under-represented. The traditional radical centers, Cambridge. New York and Berkeley, sent contingents--along with groups from less likely places such as Baltimore. Durham, and Davenport itself. The largest chapter is in Pittsburgh...
...Left in recent years. The organization is grounded in reality: it seems to be broadly based and it attracts people who have proved that they are serious about changing American society by persevering through several years of difficult and frustrating organizing experiences. People returned to their home communities from Davenport with a kind of hold-your-breath optimism...
...must also expand to include life-long workers and not just students-turned-workers. It must come to grips with how it will relate to black. Puerto Rican and Chicano movements, a consideration conspicuously absent from the Davenport conference...
...problems are staggering: the struggle will be long and hard; but a cautious optimism seems to be growing. The movement has passed into a new phase and seems to be seriously repudiating the mistakes of the past and looking to the future with hope. Many people at the Davenport conference sensed that NAM may be as significant for the seventies as Port Huron was for the sixties. Perhaps that is being overly optimistic, but the spirit of Port Huron--a break with the past, a renewal and an optimistic willingness to grasp the future--was recaptured in Davenport...