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Word: leroi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUTCHMAN. A sex-teasing white girl lures and then tongue-lashes a sedate Negro in a subway car until he turns on her with a venomous tirade of racial hate. Playwright LeRoi Jones aims to terrify, and between stations he succeeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 24, 1964 | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

DUTCHMAN. A sex-teaser white girl lures and then tongue-lashes a sedate Negro in a subway car until he turns on her with a venomous tirade of racial hate. Playwright LeRoi Jones aims to terrify, and between stations he succeeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Jun. 19, 1964 | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

DUTCHMAN, by LeRoi Jones, raises the color question to a new and distinctly terrifying pitch of violence. A sexually aggressive white girl and a sedate but inwardly seething Negro tell each other off in words that finally kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 12, 1964 | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...wrong slum? But by looking out another window, a poet such as LeRoi Jones perceives a malaise beyond sociology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Withheld | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

DUTCHMAN, by LeRoi Jones. In a New York subway car, a white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed cliches and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 29, 1964 | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

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