Word: nones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with and that also happen to be relevant to the contemporary urban social thing. 'Man, That's Your Baby" will certainly be one of the best of 1969 and Tex will certainly produce others like it. The hippest thing about "Man, That's Your Baby" is that it has none of the apologetics found in "Love Child" or theoretically, in "Cloud Nine," at the same time, it addresses itself to its primary audience, without regard for external comments or disapproval by shaky types, white or black. This ashamed-of-what? attitude that is so well represented by Joe and Aretha...
...motivated Successful American Black Man. In consequence, he is under considerable pressure to not only entertain, as he does so very well, but also to keep step with and help shape the obvious trend of political opinion among the general populace. This is not his field of special competence. None the less he has made some notable and very successful attempts to shape his art to political necessity, as in "I'm Black And I'm Proud." Frankly, though, J.B. does not seem very comfortable dealing with politics. His own personal wishes seem closer to what he has done...
...NONE OF the professors have liked Ridgeway's book much. James Billington who teaches medieval history at Princeton and doubles as a consultant for the CIA, called it "childish" in a Life review. Ernest Van den Haag, retained in 1964 to testify against the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision, participated in the WNDT panel as a professor from the New School for Social Research, and scoffed at Ridgeway's pessimism...
...None of the proposals is in the form of legislation, but they are among the several score of tax reform proposals on which the committee is currently holding hearings. Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.), chairman of the committee, has said that no action will be taken on any of the proposals for at least a year. But one Harvard source recently said, "Just the fact that they've proposed them is something to worry about...
Roth's world is that of the nouveau riche and the pseudo-intellectual. His suburbanites struggle with the complexities of country clubs and housing developments; his professors, just out of Harvard or Columbia, are careful to pronounce Don Quixote with the hard X. None possess the depth or complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower...