Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactical importance arising out of a conscious, creative effort to see black students determining the direction of their own movement. For SNCC, the decision of white-exclusion is more deeply rooted in a chauvinistic dogma that says black exclusivism equals black superiority -- a romantic contrivance that even the late Malcolm X abandoned. It is disheartening that the only visible product of SNCC's collective array of striking personalities is a kind of street-oriented, ultrahip, political lingo that makes all SNCC statements sound distressingly similar...
...tennis team overcame the absence of newly-elected captain Clarke Kawakami to coast to a 7-2 victory over Brown. The easy win gave the freshman netmen a 3-0 record. Larry Terrell, at first singles, led the way with a 6-0, 7-5 conquest of the Bruins' Malcolm Chester. Pete Abrams, playing in Kawakami's second singles slot, waltzed to a 6-2, 6-0 victory...
Window VIII and Two Heads have a very special significance. The first was done as a memorial to Malcolm X, shows a shirtless Negro boy, arms raised in a prayerful gesture, staring sadly through the window. The second portrays a beautiful but pale and cold Negro woman with a Negro man peering at her from an orange-colored door. Asked if she were meant to be part white, Tooker replies, "Yes, none of us are pure." His mother's family is descended from 16th century Cuban Creoles...
With this entree, Kazin met most of the characters whose portraits make up the rest of the book. Some of the names Kazin discusses are still familiar--Mary McCarthy, Malcolm Cowley, William Saroyan, and James T. Farrell; others, like those of V.F.Calverton, editor of the Marxist Modern Monthly. Otis Ferguson, the ex-sailor who worked on the New Republic, and Francis Corcoran, a pietistic Catholic who also managed to be a Communist, mean nothing to people who can hardly remember the early '50's. But all were part of the literary-political world of Alfred Kazin and all were part...
...Parkland Hospital, the President lay in Trauma Room 1-an area "as impersonal as IBM, which had actually manufactured the wall clock." Dr. Malcolm Perry entered the room and looked at Kennedy, who was undressed except for a back brace and shorts; the surgeon's first reaction was, "The President's bigger than I thought...