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There may be other issues in the Chicago election in addition to the fact that Democrat Harold Washington, 60, an undistinguished Congressman with a disconcerting disregard for filing income tax returns happens to be black, and that Republican Bernard Epton, 61, an equally undistinguished former state legislator happens to be white. But it was getting increasingly hard to find any. The racial partisanship that dragged the mayoral race to a new low last week removed any doubt that next Tuesday's election was, alas, likely to turn out to be essentially a black-and-white matter...
...Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, the octogenarian hero of the elderly, also was booed by a white audience last week. Douglas Fraser, the president of the United Auto Workers, confronted the race issue headon. Said he: "This election would have been over the day after the primary except that Harold Washington is black." Ohio Senator John Glenn said the Chicago campaign showed that "we're at the hardest part of the civil rights movement... How do you change hearts and minds?" One prominent personality the Washington campaign has been keeping out of the picture lately is the Rev. Jesse...
Halfway up this grim parapet of fate is a scooped-out ledge, a pocket of tenuous survival, where two men lie panting for breath. Taylor (Jeffrey DeMunn) and Harold (Jay Patterson) have reached the summit of K2. At 28,250 ft., this Himalayan peak is the second highest mountain in the world, topped only by Everest. On the way down, Harold lost his footing and suffered a critical leg wound. Only Taylor can descend for help. He is short 120 ft. of much needed rope, having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times...
...Mountains are metaphors," Harold says, but imminent death is not. The two men jest, curse and trade raw-tongued obscenities-all impotent delaying actions. Playwright Meyers tries to penetrate the core of each man's being, but he is only fitfully successful. Information is not insight. Meyers probes the past lives of Taylor and Harold, but not their hearts and souls or the roots of their perplexing friendship. Taylor is a hard-nosed district attorney with a rightist bias who revels in his animal prowess with girls in singles bars. Harold is a do-good veteran...
...goes deeper than that. In the torrent of doublespeak surrounding Harold Washington and Thomas Minter, it has been forgotten that these men are, quite simply, the best candidates for the offices they seek. Prejudiced whites in Chicago and New York, in their fearful haste to bar Blacks from positions of political authority, condemn residents of those cities to suffer under the uninspired, under-prepared men of mediocrity they throw in as buffers. The sooner demagogic purveyors of racial fears like Epton and Koch are made unwelcome, the sooner "merit" can truly improve the quality of leadership in America...