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...Guston has returned to painting figures. He has also turned political. It may seem a little late in the century to mount an entire exhibition on the theme of the Ku Klux Klan, but that is what he has done. Drawn in a mock-fumbly, endearing line, hooded Klansmen, looking like half-inflated dirigibles, sit plotting together in cheap hotel rooms, or ride in a jalopy through city streets, or, cigar in fist, survey piles of bodies. Sometimes they are seen in confabulation with a bald, pink-necked Southern sheriff. Now and then a hand, suggestive...
...never far from Guston's figurative work: his 1946 Night Children may be caught in a dream, but they live in a slum. The new paintings attack more broadly. His Klansmen are not to be taken as images of a specific present threat (who now takes the Klan as a real political force?) but as generalized symbols of inhumanity. The cunning childishness of Guston's style accords with a game his paintings play -the reduction of the elements of evil to their simplest form, like building blocks...
KPFT Houston tried to continue the Pacifica tradition. Though its management was anti-war and pro-civil rights it offered equal (and free) time to opposing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. The station's gravest sin was the amateurism of its largely volunteer staff, which tended to stumble over music introductions and play tapes backward. That hardly seemed enough to earn it the enmity of the community. Yet twice within its first seven months, the KPFT transmitter was dynamited out of business. The first bombing, in May, silenced it for four weeks. The second, this month, threatened...
...Black Panthers is what we need as an equalizer," explained Seaman James Cannon of Gary, Ind. "The beast [white man] got his Ku Klux Klan. The Black Panthers gives the beast something to fear like we feared from the Ku Klux Klan all our lives." Said Seaman Milton Banion of Maywood, Ill., another sailor at Danang: "The honkies made the Panthers violent like they are. I'd join 'em, and I'd help 'em kill all these honkie motherfuckers, because do unto him before he do unto you." Albert Jackson of Chicago, a black Marine stationed at Chu Lai, promised...
Young started a voter registration drive in Thomasville, Ga., only to have counterdemonstrating Ku Klux Klan members thwart his campaign. When the civil rights movement gained momentum in the early '60s, Young joined King and the S.C.L.C...