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...formed a principle of existence for a whole lot of people long before the Fathers signed their ambiguous document and still does. If you act white, you're going to be lied to. Or better, if you don't act black. Because skin is skin and it takes a heap of acting to get outside...
...scene, as husband and wife head homeward, the man pulls his car up to a crossroad, immobilized by circumstances and the contradictions of his own nature, literally asking himself which way to turn. The camera pulls back to watch the car squatted there, frozen in time, unforgettable, a frail heap of nuts and bolts suddenly alive with one man's pride, guilt, confusion and despair...
Resting securely on the bottom of the heap are Winthrop, 0-5-1, and Quincy, 0-4. The Puritans have been particularly in-ept, managing to push across only once touchdown all season...
...bare 8 yds. But nobody has been able to stop him this year (TIME, Oct. 4)-and certainly not the Giants. Ripping off 7 and 8 yds. a carry, he shucked tacklers like peanut shells, once straight-armed Giant Linebacker Bill Winter so hard that Winter collapsed in a heap. With the ball on the New York 5, he picked up 4 yds. with five Giant tacklers clinging to him. He then made the touchdown by hurling himself bodily into the air. A lucky interception and Giant Quarterback Y. A. Tittle's wonderful passes gave New York...
...correct the contemporary estimate of James and to locate him more precisely in the history of American literature--a commendable object, surely. But, because of his approach, he only succeeds in directing a barrage of snide footnotes at his colleagues and in reducing poor James to a psychological heap...