Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French-born Southeast Asia Expert Bernard Fall, a levelheaded critic of Administration policy, after a discussion on Viet Nam at the University of Illinois last week. "There is far less 'Let's clean up the Chinese' on one hand and 'Let's get the hell out' on the other...
...come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned pulpit-thumping sermons and turned to the long-range task of convincing their parishioners by indirection and example-a harder strategy, perhaps, but one that in the long run may prove more successful...
...correct when you say, in reviewing Carl Bakal's The Right to Bear Arms [July 29], that the U.S. of 1966 has no marauding redcoats or redskins. But unfortunately we do have the Black Muslims, Hell's Angels, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. Since the beginning of time, man has needed to defend himself. To deny the honest citizen easy access to firearms is to deny him a life without fear...
Changing the Patterns. Negroes themselves have mixed feelings about living alongside whites. "The hell with integration," says former Cleveland Browns Fullback Jimmy Brown, who lives in a largely Negro middle-class Cleveland neighborhood. "Just don't segregate me." But many find decent housing so scarce in Negro neighborhoods that the only choice is to look in white areas, and often they do so with trepidation. A well-to-do Detroit Negro who thought of moving to Grosse Pointe decided against it because "I didn't want garbage on my porch, and I didn't want my children...
Most of his material comes from his own backwoods boyhood spent on a 2,500-acre cotton plantation in the Arkansas Delta country. There, as a youth, he listened in on back-porch yarn spinning, submitted to hell-fire-and-damnation sermons, saw ghosts at the foot of his four-poster and, like many another adolescent, doubted his own provenance ("Was I adopted? Had I been stolen from the gypsies?"). Unlike most children, though, he drew constantly. "At first it was only cowboys, then it was baseball and football players. Finally," he recalls, "I drew a cowgirl." Not long after...