Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BIRDS, BEASTS AND RELATIVES, by Gerald Durrell. Zoology begins at home, or at least that's the way it seems to Naturalist Durrell, who recalls his boyhood infatuation with animals and his family's strained tolerance of some of the things that followed him into the house...
COLLECTED ESSAYS, by Graham Greene. In notes and criticism, the prolific novelist provocatively drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey...
...Angeles, Detroit, Birmingham, Jackson, Miss., and Danville, Va. Five years ago in Harlem, where he was born in 1938, a brick slammed into Terry's chest and left him gasping on the pavement. In 1963, he was with Medgar Evers the night before Evers was killed at his home in Jackson. For the past 22 months, Terry has been in our Saigon bureau, reporting the war in Viet Nam. Yet of all his assignments, says Terry, "the most fascinating - and in some ways frustrating - was reporting the new black militancy in Viet Nam for our story this week...
...test was so clearly positive as to make George Wallace envious. Cheers and rebel yells greeted Nixon, and home made signs assured him that he was warmly welcome. "Pat, you got a good man," said one sign. "Not many Republicans here, but lots of Nixoncrats," read another. When the President waded into the crowd to shake hands, he ignited a frenzy of affection unlike any thing seen in American politics since the campaign of the late Robert Kennedy. Adoring kids charged across police lines, girls squealed, babies cried, one woman fainted and another reached out to muss Nixon...
Before the war went stale and before black aspirations soared at home, the black soldier was satisfied to fight on an equal basis with his white comrade-in-arms in Viet Nam as in no other war in American history. But now there is another war being fought in Viet Nam -between black and white Americans. "The immediate cause for racial problems here," explains Navy Lieut. Owen Heggs, the only black attorney in I Corps, "is black people themselves. White people haven't changed. What has changed is the black population...