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...considerable achievement, Gardner's book does not seem a whole creation. In the manner of a hard-boiled thirties' novelist like Horace McCoy, Gardner makes his narrative voice a cruelly objective one, not committing himself to a place in the narrative, intent only on mirroring the mind of the character at hand. This makes for some instances of stunning understatement, particularly in the last pages; a still-innocent Ernie Munger hitches a ride with two might-be lesbians who stridently torment each other and use the naive Munger as a pawn in their game, personifying on a car seat...
N.E.A. field studies in Mississippi and Louisiana turned up some appalling cases. Until last summer, Fred McCoy was principal of the all-black Midway Elementary School in Natalbany, La. Integration closed his school, and he was assigned to teach a fourth-grade class at a formerly all-white school-in the morning. In the afternoon, he was expected to do janitor's chores in the school latrines. At least McCoy kept busy. A black former principal in Louisiana has been given a desk to sit at but no title or duties that he has been able to determine...
...them no longer see integration as the only-or even the best-way to obtain it. Separatists now urge black control over schools in black communities, whether in the North or the Deep South. One moderate though disenchanted veteran of a controversial experiment in local school control is Rhody McCoy, administrator of the battered Ocean Hill-Brownsville district in Brooklyn. McCoy says bluntly: "Integration has never worked. What kind of a hypocrite am I to tell black children to do their thing in school and college so that they can take their rightful place in society? Where is that place...
...film is based on Horace McCoy's 1935 novel of the same title, a book which achieved an underground reputation (particularly in Paris) as one of the best of the first existential works of American fiction. It tells the story of a group of down-and-out Depression refugees who participate in a dance marathon, hoping against hope to cop the contest's $1500 prize...
HEADING up Plympton Street, you arrive at Krackerjack's where manager Mr. McCoy says December dollar sales were about the same in 1968, but only because of higher prices. None-theless, their big sale doesn't start for a couple of weeks. But you can get a pair of bright red boots now for $10 off. (Reduced from $40-figure it out.) Next door, Ferranti-Dege is offering half-off on fresh Gevart-Agfa photographic paper-500 8x10 sheets only...