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...Black Power and the Talented 10 Per Cent." That conference was a first formal aggravation of the northern black student's conscience, which had rested easier during the fifties and early sixties while racism was being battled mostly in the south. At last spring's conference, Hall reports, James Forman criticized black students at Northern prestige schools, told them: "You're not the talented 10 per cent--the talented 10 per cent is back in the ghetto...
Hall accepts Forman's implications that black students should begin to think in terms of action as acquiring elite professional skills. But Hall also--importantly and rightly--calls the militants on a seeming distrust of academics. Hall's faith is in a joint project of study and action. He refuses the label "sellout." The label has put other black students too quickly on the defensive. One hopes that white colleges will increasingly provide an education that can be geared to produce black leaders...
...party's effort to dictate style in art. Her Daisies, for example, is a plotless romp of two teenage girls whose stunts include holding up butterfly specimens in place of their bras, swinging from chandeliers and eating food ads instead of food. The work of Milos Forman has helped to make Czechoslovak films popular abroad; his Loves of a Blonde was a human, tender, wry love story of ordinary people with ordinary emotions that had no socialistic message to dull it; it appealed to people everywhere. One of its features: the first nude love scene in the history...
...Supreme Court. Only one other justice in recent times has gone directly to the court from the Solicitor General's slot, and he had the same problem Marshall has had. "I disqualified myself in any case with which I had dealt as Solicitor General," says retired Justice Stanley Forman Reed, "and Justice Marshall's action is perfectly in keeping with practice." But because the case load is now larger than ever before, Marshall has most likely set a court record. His total so far is 40 disqualifications out of the 54 cases decided after argument...
...white delegates complaisantly approved the statement. "Anyone who does not like it can go to hell," declared James Forman, a director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A delegate asked: "Is this a dictatorship?" "Yes," snapped Forman, garbed in a white African tunic and flanked by bodyguards. "And I am the dictator...