Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Film Festival isn't what it used to be. Perhaps it never was. True, previous festivals did provide American debuts for some major foreign films: Poland's Knife in the Water (1963), Czechoslovakia's The Shop on Main Street (1965), Italy's The Battle of Algiers (1967). But movie enthusiasts tend to forget the undistinguished and unmemorable fare that made up the bulk of the programs. Even at its best, Lincoln Center offered the viewer only a few diamonds in a setting of zircons...
...green from the frequent afternoon rains. There are small cotton fields along the roads, and in September the open cotton bolls make the Black Belt look like a huge snowbank. In the open meadows there are fat black cattle grazing under "Eat More Beef" signs. A traveller on the main highways, looking just at the green hills and the cotton and the cattle, might think he had found the legendary pastoral American paradise...
That's because a traveller on the main roads wouldn't see many of the people that live behind the hills. It takes some arduous tracking on the red dirt roads and the mule paths to find the hard-core poor. Alabama's poor are slightly more visible than those lost in the urban ghettos, but it's still easy to forget they are there until a trip up the dirt road shows them too clearly...
...survey of the fifty states (see p.3) revealed that the main problem at this point is to persuade discouraged liberals not to "leave and let the old hacks do the party work for the next four years and then get mad when the hacks choose their man," according to a Philadelphia ward boss. But this is very much the Old Politics...
Problems of building effective coalitions, maintaining one's philosophical commitment to the New Politics, maintaining liberal participation in precinct level drudgery in machine states, and dealing with the polarized Southern parties are the main problems faced by Gore, Lowenstein, Julian Bond, and their nascent New Democratic Coalition. They have forty-seven months to solve them