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...Artists in America." The organizer is black (the museum has never had a white curator) and all demands from artists for a white guest curator to give advice in this delicate area are rebuffed. So the museum's man spends a nervous year among the studios of East Hampton, Venice West and SoHo in an atmosphere of mounting agitation and distrust. By the eve of the show, a number of his chosen artists have angrily pulled out, and they include many of the best white talents. The exhibition is crippled. "That's honkies for you," sighs the perplexed...
There you have an approximation of a newly imported British comedy, The Philanthropist. Playwright Christopher Hampton, 24, is witty, clever, debonair; he uses the English language with sly gusto and rare affection. He has given an impressive display of that affection in his fluently idiomatic adaptations of A Doll's House and Hedda Gahler in this season's off-Broadway revivals. The misfortune in his own play is that the passion, conflict and tone of voice of a playwright saying what he feels he has to say are all but inaudible...
...concludes that only two deaths-Hampton's and Clark's-substantiate Garry's charge that local police departments are conspiring to commit "genocide" of the Black Panther Party...
These two-Hampton and Clark-meet Epstein's requirements for victims of genocide because at the time of their deaths they were unarmed, were not engaged in committing a crime or in threatening the police, and were known to the police ahead of time as Panthers, he said...
...general, however, Garry refused to discuss the cases specifically. He stated that he had drawn up his original list of 28 deaths in a very short time after the assassination of Hampton and Clark, fearing that a wave of violence against the Panthers was impending...