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RACE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN AMERICA by Thomas F. Gossett. 512 pages. S.M.U. Press...
...words might be those of a Bilbo, a Rankin or any number of rednecks. In fact, they are the considered opinion of the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, who thought that "all men are created equal," except for Negroes. In this painstaking book, Thomas Gossett, English professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, has traced racism to some surprising sources. Racism would not have endured so long, he suggests, if it had not had the wholehearted support of nearly all early American intellectuals. "The frontiersmen either looked forward with pleasure to the extinction of the Indians...
...Nurses (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Louis Gossett, as guest star, is a gunman hospitalized after having been shot in a holdup. Treating his wounds are the series regulars: Head Nurse Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway) and Student Nurse Gail Lucas (Zina Bethune...
Playwright Peterson has captured Spencer's seventeen-ness admirably, and High-School Senior Louis Gossett plays him well. There is a fresh, humorous smack to the writing-that sense of proportion so vital in dealing with a character who lacks one. But only his humor and his hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely...
Last month Texas Democrat Ed Gossett left his seat in the House and went back home to become counsel for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. at $25,000 a year, because he found it impossible to support his wife and five children on a Congressman's $12,500 salary and $2,500 untaxed expense account (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week seven Democrats and one Republican thought enough of a Congressman's pay and position to fight it out for the seat in a special election. The winner: husky District Judge Frank Ikard, 37, a Wichita Falls Democrat...