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...lack of concern. His now-repudiated racist speech in 1948 could even conceivably have been an automatic acquiescence to a regional political ritual. He helped convert a Tallahassee public golf course threatened with integration in 1956 into a private club, once bought land that carried a racially restrictive deed, and served as a director of a housing corporation for a Florida State University fraternity that excluded blacks. All those acts only conformed to the unfortunate facts of life in the Old South. Earl Warren, after all, once helped put thousands of Japanese-Americans into detention camps...
...characterized his political views as radical said, "The decisions were needed for a long time, but don't do much good because they are not uniformly enforced. In most cases, they're not enforced at all. Atleast now we have a bill of rights in name, if not in deed...
Early in the life of Hair, she was in deed pregnant, and it was thought that she was going to have her baby onstage. Someone even claimed that Andy Warhol had taken pictures of her child's birth for Avant- Garde magazine. In terms of Hair, another tribesman paid Sally Eaton the ultimate compliment in likening her dressing room to Alices Restaurant; I regretted having missed that scene...
...when A Boy Named Charlie Brown sticks to a boy named Charlie Brown, it becomes a good deed in a naughty world, bright, nonviolent and equipped with an animated moral, the way Snoopy is equipped with a tail. Charlie loses the National Spelling Bee and slinks back to town, looking for all the world like an extinguished light bulb. And behold!-life goes on. In spite of failure and humiliation, observes the prescient Linus, "the world didn't come to an end." It is a message that should not be missed by sensitive children. Neither should the movie...
...read Martha Mitchell's comments on protest, I just can't seem to escape the feeling that she is still upset over the American Revolution of 1776. After all, if the British government had only handled the situation firmly, instead of "catering to revolution," then that family deed from the King of England would still be valid...