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Sevilla responded to the tragedy with shock and outrage. There were demonstrations in the street, long marches with banners and posters asking for peace. Children and old people, as well as torrents of students, sang stirring or mocking songs and chanted as they walked down the central avenue in front...
Such flash-point confrontations would be a rarity for Jordan. He was a lawyer, not a preacher or street activist, and after a risky period spent registering black voters across the South, he came to eschew marches and sit-ins in favor of working inside the system and raising money...
All this suggests, the report concludes, that "in-store music could influence product choice." That revelation, if taken to heart, might tip the balance of trade. If foreign emporiums could be induced to play Sousa marches or gangsta rap, who knows how much Coors or Budweiser the U.S. might sell...
If Janofsky's interpretation is on the mark--if these marches and gatherings are about individual responsibility--why do they take the form of mass gatherings? Individual responsibility, we are told, usually melts away in crowds. This is the famous "bystander effect." If one person witnesses a tragedy he or...
The recent mass events understand this difficulty. They serve as support groups and even as communities. Their aim, however, is to help the individual with his actions. It would be a mistake to think of these gatherings as undifferentiated communitarian blobs. These people, when the marches are over, have to...