Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arousing passions, private white academies are proliferating, and resistance to more integration is growing. Such calm advice as that of Alabama Superintendent of Education Ernest Stone is sorely needed. Says he: "If they'll let me keep the public school system, I'll crawl on my belly and eat grass and crow until doomsday." Studies of Southern integration show that black children profit academically from the experience. Black students in a tenth grade in Rome, Ga., were tested in 1965 and found to be performing at seventh-through ninth-grade levels. A test of succeeding groups of black tenth-graders...
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...souvenir-decalled camper with his fat, snorting wife and a brownie box camera, and no less fiery a militant than Kathleen Cleaver chairs the student meeting. And after enough contrasts of clips of gorgeous desert scenes interspersed with unbelievably Orwellian visions of the supercorporation (they used tanned mannequins, plastic-grass golf courses, and rubber food in their real estate ads), the viewer is fairly certain that there are poles in American society and knows which one he'd rather identify with. But after bombarding us with a heavy surplus of clues, Antonioni cuts them off almost altogether, leaving an amorphous...
...grew up in Chicago, experiencing many of the same frustrations that now embitter the city's blacks. The son of a Jewish tailor from Russia, he burned as a youth with the need to compensate for his own lack of power. "I never thought of walking on the grass," he recalls, "until I saw a sign saying 'Keep off the grass.' Then I would stomp all over it." He studied archaeology at the University of Chicago, but what really excited him was spending a summer helping dissident miners in their revolt against John L. Lewis' United...
...early postwar years, Boll wrestled with the question of Germany's guilt and corruption. Bitter irony marked his work, but also extraordinary grace and compassion. His subsequent novels, particularly Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959) and The Clown (1963), enhanced his reputation-along with the much younger Giinter Grass-as Germany's most profoundly committed writer...