Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning they didn't socialize at all, the blacks and the whites. We had a Sadie Hawkins dance, and I only saw one white couple, and they left five minutes later. We had a skating party, and I didn't see any white people at all. I guess they either think we don't want them or they are afraid something will happen to them down here. Some mothers and fathers come and pick up their kids, and maybe I don't blame them if they are scared. I know one white...
...making the new busing and integration program work. "The bus I travel on is all white," he says of his ten-minute ride to school. "On the first days, when we pulled up to the school, like it was very quiet. I don't know why, except I guess we were all afraid of the black people. I guess the blacks were worried about us too. At the beginning just about everybody sat at all-white tables in the cafeteria, and the whites and blacks wouldn't talk to each other very much. But we've only...
...Blacks are different," he continues. "They have different personalities and all that. But I guess I would never have known any or made any friends among them if it had not been for busing, if some of those grownups had their way. The adults say that seventh-graders can't grasp the situation, that we're too young. Well, how can they tell? They aren't the ones in school. They're not trying to make it work. We are. We have to live together and grow up together so we can keep this earth going...
THIS brand of poetry, consciously I should guess becomes something to move people. It becomes a tool of persuasion in addition to feeling especially if the poetry deals with social and political realities. Not only does the performer poet create life in the solitude of his art, he goes through the process all over again on stage: each reading becomes, at best a writing. Life becomes lived at the heightened level of art, just as art is given the breath of life. During his reading of a poem, the poet performer becomes the poem itself. The interaction between the poet...
Phelan Phase. The project dragged on into 1970. Eventually Dietrich became dissatisfied with Phelan's work ("It was his first book and I guess he was going for the Pulitzer"). Dietrich and Phelan signed a $40,000 settlement. Dietrich hired another writer, Associated Press Hollywood Correspondent Bob Thomas, who finished the book off in six weeks. Dietrich had been having trouble finding a publisher, and was about to accept a mere $5,000 advance for his book when the Irving story broke last December. Dietrich negotiated a $65,000 advance from Fawcett, which will bring out the Thomas version...