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...first time since 1961 and the heyday of Archie Roberts, the Ivy League title will be decided at Baker Field in the Bronx, as dark horse Columbia hosts Ivy frontrunner Brown...
...original version (TIME, July 19), has for four straight weeks broken all box-office records for a legitimate Broadway show. The black edition of Guys and Dolls, the long-running The Wiz (Oz over a different rainbow), and Bubbling Brown Sugar, a revue celebrating Harlem in its Cotton Club heyday, are all doing turnaway business. So is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a "choreopoem" about being black and female that is one of the most poignant dramas to fill a commercial theater in years. More important yet, Broadway's black bonanza...
...about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native support in Italian East Boston, and her and Hick's extremist tack may have seen its heyday. Palladino, at least, will probably go the usual route of politicians who have lost their local leg up to higher office and run for higher office anyway--speculation has it, for the Senate. It is clear now that Palladino doesn't have a chitling's chance in South Boston...
...about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native support in Italian East Boston, and her and Hick's extremist tack may have seen its heyday. Palladino, at least, will probably go the usual route of politicians who have lost their local leg up to higher office and run for higher office anyway--speculation has it, for the Senate. It is clear now that Palladino doesn't have a chitling's chance in South Boston...
...hellfire tradition of revival-tent meetings grew an uglier tradition of prejudice and violence. The burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan were a grotesque perversion of Christian principles, but an image was formed. "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent," as H.L. Mencken scolded during the heyday of Klan power in the 1920s. "Every Baptist pastor became a neighborhood Pope ... Every pastor was a chartered libertine, free to bawl nonsense without challenge ... What the poor whites heard from the outside world they heard from the lips of these pious ignoramuses...