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...monsters and argue over the meaning of directives emanating from Peking. Advice to "destroy the Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits) sent Dai and his friends roaming through Canton, smashing anything that looked faintly bourgeois and changing street names (one group got in a fist fight with another team over whether one street should be East Is Red Road or Pioneer Road). There were minor disappointments ("Old objects became difficult to find, since people began to destroy them themselves"). But on the whole, Dai admits, "we felt like adults, really for the first time...
...politics are obvious as Seale and Huggins enter the courtroom and raise the clenched fist to the cluster of observers; as Garry hammers home Seale's political history; as the prosecutor asks the potential jurors what they think of the Panthers' Ten-Point Program; as the dozens of jurors move through the courtroom like the Silent Majority on parade. The politics are obvious as the observers endure the body searches; they band together in sharing food, drinks, books, chairs, worry about how thin and wane Huggins has become, worshipfully note Seale's daily state of mind, and then reflect...
...seat. The applause quieted but the buzz remained; and the applause was always ready to burst free again. On the Queenfor-a Day popularity register, two sorts of remarks scored highest: the humorous and the radical. In her New York accent. Abzug-who twice raised a weak fist and pulled it down in hasty embarrassment-revealed that she "only went to Hunter College" and that her grandmother would be very proud to see her at Harvard. Her audience responded warmly, with laughter and cheers. Her shouted calls to action-organizing Congressional constituencies, marching to Washington, registering 18 year-olds...
...dramatize their unhappiness at Richard Nixon's refusal to meet with them. For the first time in this century, black representatives sit under the Confederate flags of the Alabama and South Carolina statehouses; in Delaware's House, a black delegate sometimes answers roll call with a clenched fist. Blacks run Greene County, Ala. (TIME, Feb. 1), as well as 64 of the nation's cities...
...this time, the man from Channel 5 has arrived. He and the photo man get together and decide that they want Paul to stand on a pew in view of many of the antiwar posters that adorn the sanctuary. "Right, that's good. Hey, Paul, let's stick that fist up. Right, higher, higher, a bit higher, really high. Great, that's good." The lights from the television make Paul squint and suddenly the quietly eloquent pacifist whose faith in people is innocent but not naive is transformed into some kind of squinty, fist-raised freak...