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...bitter denunciations of white civilization as decadent and evil, LeRoi Jones cannot quite flush it from his system. It is as much a part of this 36-year-old black writer as having been the son of a Newark, N.J., postal worker, a graduate of Howard University, an East Village intellectual with a Tyrolean hat and a white wife, and a gifted poet-playwright who was cheered until white liberals decided that white guilt was a form of masochism...
...ambivalent past can be a source of strength and creative energy. Today Jones-also known as Imamu Amiri Baraka-has a black wife and is the leader of Spirit House, an African culture center in Newark. But the past can also cause awkward ironies. Why, for example, should Jones, as dedicated as he is to the unique genius of African cultures, be so dependent on the white man's academic jargon and propaganda techniques? Their dead weight has a consistently bad effect on the otherwise vital and aggressive street style of many of the essays and manifestoes contained...
...Allah." Jones' rhetoric about virile blacks v. effete whites proves his own point. Like the quotations of Chairman Mao, such talk is a form of political action, though hardly divine. The book does offer a savage vignette of blacks being harassed in a Newark courtroom as well as a snarling account of that city's 1967 riots set against a background of ethnic politics and official corruption. But mainly Jones pushes a distended version of black nationalism based on a fusion of black art, black politics and African spiritualism...
...mayor of Seattle may confront more unemployment. The mayor of Newark may be closer to city bankruptcy. The mayor of Cleveland may be more bitterly at odds with his own council. Yet Lindsay must face a state legislature that is determined to give his city as little help as possible. Moreover he is up against a Governor, Nelson Rockefeller, who openly berates him, despite their common home in the liberal wing of the Republican Party. In his book The City, Lindsay described his annual pilgrimage to the state capital of Albany to get the city budget cleared. "When I prepare...
When they first ran against each other in 1967, Jim Ryun of the University of Kansas was the world's premier miler and Marty Liquori was a 17-year-old hotshot out of Essex Catholic High in Newark, N.J. At the A.A.U. championships that year, Liquori streaked home in 3 min. 59.8 sec. to shatter the four-minute barrier for the first time in his career. The crowd cheered-but not for Marty. He finished seventh, a full 70 yds. behind Ryun, who set a new-and still unbroken-world record of 3 min. 51.1 sec. for the mile...