Word: heroines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sitdown protest at the Manhattan headquarters of the First National City Bank, which handles Harvard investments. Three of the mothers had recently been mugged by drug addicts on Park Avenue between 72nd and 84th streets. When they discovered Fixyou, Inc., was one of the country's largest suppliers of heroin, the demonstration was organized in order to demand that the university sell its more than 2 million dollars worth of stock in the company. Mr. Spock immediately commissioned the present study in order, as he said, that "we may proceed on the basis of a thorough knowledge...
...murderous determination to pound the Vietnamese into submission? How can McGovern's cover-up for Salinger compare to Nixon's grotesque involvement in a series of political scandals which nobody seems to mind? Would McGovern excoriate "permissive" judges knowing that his foreign allies were pumping into America the heroin that nurtures crime? Would McGovern sabotage his own welfare plan? Would McGovern manipulate false issues like American prisoners and busing until the country was tense with fear and hatred...
...offenders are Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue, which feature Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Cambridge as veteran Harlem detectives. In Cotton a modern day Marcus Garvey is unmasked as a charlatan, while in Charleston Blue a dynamic young black photographer who rids the community of heroin turns out to be using it for his own purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems and only...
...Sounder, but the white movie producers and their black allies have other aspirations. American International already has Blackenstein under production, and there is talk of yet another Shaft film. White producers justify their efforts by the old rationalization, "We're only giving them what they want." But like heroin and cocaine, whites and some unscrupulous blacks are once again giving the black community what it wants but not what it needs...
...Trying to cure the heroin problem by destroying the sources of heroin is like trying to cure the problem of overweight by destroying the sources of food. Fantastic...