Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first read Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano on the all-night train trip from Central Mexico to the U.S. border at Nuevo Laredo. The trip, particularly in the second class compartment, easily beats a coast-to-coast Greyhound for discomfort. Mexican women with three children and a rooster buy one ticket, and then, once on the train, let their charges squirm their way over into the seat that you, God damn it, paid full fare...
...been putting off reading Lowry's novel, partly because it was "about Mexico," and could be found prominently displayed on the paperback racks in all the Sanborn's in Mexico City. And, too, there was something irksomely cultish about the Lowry fans I had met. They talked of Malcolm and Margerie, rather than Lowry and his wife. They had visited all the places in the book. Hadn't Malcolm got that one just right, and now I know exactly how he felt, and drunk too! even though Lowry had lived in Mexico thirty years ago when nothing could possibly have...
...film a lot of people get together and romp all over the place for about 75 minutes. The Beatles did this in Hard Day's Night; Annette Funicello and cohorts had their fun in Beach Party; and now Tiny Tim, the hippies and some plain old hipsters (e.g., Malcolm Boyd) get their chance to whoop it up in You Are What...
...main strength of the book is in its tying together of these white and black problems. Inserted between chapters on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, is a section on the white race and its heroes. "What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains." Youths "recoil in shame from the spectacle of cowboys and pioneers--their heroic forefathers whose exploits filled earlier generations with pride--galloping across a movie screen shooting down Indians like Coke bottles...
CLEAVER points out that the black man's problems in America are not independent of those of other oppressed pepole. It is no accident that Malcolm X went to Africa, that Martin Luther King was against the Vietnam War, or that the Vietcong have warned black soldiers of impending terrorist activities in Saigon. "The blacks in Watts and all over America could now see the Vietcong's point: both were on the receiving end of what the armed forces were dishing...