Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belligerence & Fun. The obvious intent was to involve the audience, much as Happenings and psychedelic rock try to do. Still, most of what Kraft had to say was musical. His style projected a cool blend of rich dissonance and easygoing lyricism, and though Contextures seemed to owe almost as much to Broadway and jazz as to Stravinsky, there was never any doubt who the Kraftsman...
...fill a tenured position. A black man could have the background and experience to teach blacks (and whites) here what no presently tenured Faculty member can. And the University should recruit and train black graduate students, thereby increasing the number of young black Faculty members. Expressions of eager intent are no longer sufficient...
...flood of official rhetoric in the last four days invoking Martin Luther King's non-violence to choke potential riots has obscured the edge of the man's philosophy and the distinctiveness of his achievement. King was always a militant--his intent was to expose the white viciousness with which his non-violence was met. And so his assassination was not truly a shock; nor should the country sanctimoniously pretend not to understand why this man's death has provoked new bursts of despair and anger from the ghetto...
Prisons are traditional finishing schools of writers and revolutionaries. Eldridge Cleaver is a product of both the black ghettos and the California penal system. Convicted of a marijuana charge at 18 and of assault with intent to kill at 22, Cleaver spent most of the twelve years between 1954 and 1966 in Soledad, Folsom, and San Quentin state prisons. And now, at 32, he is a Ramparts staff writer and a "fulltime revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America...
...white liberals, the spewing forth of raw and undigested hate, the attempt to splice an artificial bond with victims of colonialism throughout the world. Cleaver himself has been successively an orthodox Black Muslim, a follower of Malcolm X, and is currently a Black Panther. He seems more or less intent on keeping up with the Jones boy, LeRoi, in expressing all "the funky facts of life...