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...movies (the others: Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling for the Depression-era South, and the touches of nostalgia that hover like hummingbirds over his narrative are most often exactly right -like Addie's partiality to strawberry Nehi and Nu Grape or a quick, vivid portrait of a small-time fair...
...social questions and a foot-dragging episcopacy. A rawboned, amiable man with thinning white hair, Kelly lived modestly in St. Joseph's rectory in the racially mixed Fox-point section of Providence. He was a strong supporter of open housing, fasted in support of Cesar Chavez's grape boycott, and was impressed by the "tremendous witness for peace" made by Philip and Daniel Berrigan. During the South Vietnamese campaign in Laos last February, Kelly declared that it was "scandalous that churchmen are so concerned about abortion and yet have nothing to say about the destruction of human life...
Although the grape strike is unusual for the length of time over which it was sustained, in its format it is also quite typical of nonviolent activities in America. True, the participants lived the strike daily, refusing to buy or to eat non-union grapes. But the grape strike was never a large part of our lives. It was a popular and highly visible cause which never demanded full-time participation. We could forget about it once we passed the grape counter at the super market...
...this aspect of the grape strike and of American participation which Sharp misses. He fails to recognize that the pattern of nonviolent activity in this country involves either a long-term partial commitment or an extremely short-term full commitment, as in the few hours of a demonstration. The instances of complete devotion to a cause are rare here, perhaps because, as it is popular to suggest, we are a selfish, private people. But perhaps also because we have come to expect instant results to our actions. In a country where we can pick up a telephone rather than wait...
...primary purpose in life; they cannot go home and resume normal activity until the next demonstration, as do the American antiwar protesters. Sharp demands a full-time commitment which thus far in this country has only been produced in rare cases-notably the black civil rights activities and the grape strike...