Word: manly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positions, from black nationalism to Communism. Finally, surrendering all home in America, he want to Africa where he died in 1963. Last week a small portion of the world made its way to a small field, just off Route 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to pay homage to this man...
...when Heron meets Claudia (Anjelica Huston), the doe-eyed daughter of a benign monarch, that he begins to grow to manhood with a fearful swiftness. He protects Claudia when the peasants sack her father's domain. The peasants are exceeding wroth. Heron and Claudia flee. But no man will give them refuge. They have only the shelter of their hearts. Perhaps it is the wind in the trees, but it surely sounds as if Heron, much in despair, cries: "Oh, Claudia, why must man always make war? Why cannot he rest and make love?" Claudia can give no reply...
...YEAR OF THE PEOPLE by Eugene J. McCarthy. 323 pages. Doub/eday. $6.95. Though ostensibly about what happened, McCarthy's book is really about the man, his charm, his wit, his occasional smugness, above all his poetic third eye on himself and his surroundings. An unwitting reminder of the 1968 paradox that those seeking cleaner, simpler political truths chose as hero the most complex politician in the nation...
MALCOLM X: THE MAN AND HIS TIMES edited by John Henrik Clarke. 320 pages. Macmillan. $7.95. Since his murder, Malcolm X's autobiography has sold close to two million copies, and he has captured the imagination of the young and the black as a martyred leader. This collection of comments by approving observers helps explain...
...WILLIAM HAMILTON by Brian Fothergill. 459 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $10. The man cuckolded by Nelson turns out to have been a man of many parts -diplomat, art collector and scientist...