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Little by little the grotesque horror of the history the U.S. is making unfolds and, what's even more frightening, the way the U.S. thinks. Occasionally those who haven't learned to talk speak to us. A Colonel Patton cracks a hideous, somehow innocent grin and remarks that our boys are a pretty good bunch of killers. Soon we see the killers themselves, hefty, half-nude bodies frolicking on a Vietnamese beach. "What could this beach be missing," asks the curious newsman. "American girls!" comes the choral reply. "But there are beautiful girls all over the beach," protests the newsman...
Tiny fires grin wicked along the rails, warming and warning our route to hell, as conductors swing easy and rough through the doors of their cars. Flashes of cold blue lightning slap at the buildings on either side of the tracks and the lights in the car are sick and jaundiced and keep trying...
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...cherubic face, easy grin and mild-mannered, professorial air still conceal his intellect from casual acquaintances. But a discussion of opera-or early Bing Crosby-will set him off, as will any mention of Augustine, Nixon, Sophocles or the Baltimore Colts. With his wife and three children, he is quite happily settled in a modest home in a Baltimore suburb built largely to the postwar specifications of G.I. loans...
...White men are too much,"; says a Negro advertising copywriter in New York. "Here we are, trying to live the way they do, and what happens? They get themselves beads and shades (dark glasses) and go out and dance the boogaloo." Indeed, few Negroes can suppress a grin at the growing fascination among earnest whites for things black...