Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often, the residents of the beach are not even aware that it is in danger. "The people kid themselves," Caldwell says...
That restraint may have resulted in part from the white man's inchoate sense of guilt over King's death. It was abetted by the carnival air that pervaded the looting mobs ("Hell, I can't kill a kid running away with two sports coats," said a Chicago cop) and the unprecedented cooperation of many black leaders-moderate and militant-in helping police to pacify angry slum dwellers...
...violent? Primarily youth: the fatherless Negro boy aching to prove his manliness, the school dropout taunted by TV commercials offering what he cannot have and often incited by what he has learned about the Mickey Spillane brand of violence. Adding to the slum kid's anger is all the middle-class hypocrisy about violence. "Good" people utterly delegate society's dirty work to overworked white cops, few of whom are inclined to be Boy Scouts. The middle class denounces violence but wants the police to use it, and is then shocked when hordes of young hooligans respond...
...11th and M, a fire broke out suddenly in a paint store. Down the block, two old Negro men were sitting on a stoop, looking up the street at the flames. "See that kid run in there with that fire bomb?" one said. The other nodded. Within seconds, two fire trucks had begun heaving water. One of them hoisted a ladder with a hose attached over the flames and water poured down on them like a waterfall. Firemen moved to the three-story tenement next door; it was in danger of going up next. They carried out three children...
...then 27-in charge of production. Cynical studio executives snickered about the son still rising. They snicker no longer. Though his meticulously neat desk in Hollywood has a phone with a hot line to Dad in New York, his sometime critics grudgingly concede that the kid with the sulphurous temper has something-and besides he isn't a kid any more. Since the financial success of The Sound of Music- a Dick Zanuck product all the way-Fox has moved steadily from post-Cleopatra losses to $15,420,000 in net profits in 1967. Listed for production are such...