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Working class people must first be seen as individuals and not stereotyped as hopeless, ignorant racists. The greatest virtue of The White Majority is its portrayal of the actual life-style of the white working class--one very distant from Harvard's. In the words of Gene Cappelli, a 29-year-old hospital attendent who makes $101 a week to support a family of four, "If a lot of these higher-up people discussed some of this and tried to see it like the lower class people, it might help...
Although that demand was subsequently seized upon by state officials as an example of the prisoners' dangerous radicalism, it was soon abandoned by the rebel leaders when other inmates pointed out how hopeless it was. Throughout the uprising, in fact, the inmates never quite lived up to their fierce rhetoric, although their threats to kill the hostages sounded credible enough. Underlying the bullying tone of their demands was an unmistakably genuine plea that even if they were convicted criminals, all they wanted was to be treated like human beings. "We are men," said the inmate statement. "We are not beasts...
...enough. Mass is a jumble of literal and symbolic meanings, a contrived happening with pretentious overtones, a non-play about a non-Mass. In fact, what Bernstein created, perhaps unwittingly, is an upside down atomic-age Everyman in which the medieval morality play's message (man the hopeless, fleshly sinner, whose soul may yet be redeemed by Christ's Passion) degenerates into a kind of soupy, sentimental Brüderschaft...
...When the search for provincial endorsements looked utterly hopeless, Ky's forces made a last-minute stab at the Assembly. There, 59 members had remained uncommitted despite Thieu's pressure tactics. Suddenly, as if on cue, Dr. Tran Tarn, a Catholic theologian and former Director of Information in the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, declared himself a candidate, and 28 Assemblymen just as suddenly endorsed him, thus leaving an insufficient number to validate Ky's candidacy. Even before the filing deadline passed, Tarn dropped from the race. Few observers believe the Tam candidacy was anything other than...
...winning the war. B. Buddhists and students. Let them out and leave them unmolested. C. The press should be allowed full latitude of expression. While tendentious reporting is irritating," the White House cable continued, "suppression of news leads to much more serious trouble." Lodge demurred that it was hopeless to talk with Diem since he and his brother, Secret Police Chief Ngo Dinh Nhu, believed that such reforms would under mine their power. But the White House replied: "We ourselves can see much virtue in an effort to reason with an unreasonable man when he is on a collision course...