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WITHIN DAYS OF the decision of Joseph McNeil, Izell Blair. Franklin McCain and David Richmond to remain at that lunch counter, the unrest had spread. Across the South, people were sitting-in and standing outside, carrying signs and bearing bruises. The outburst of student activism--on a scale not seen since in the South--was uncoordinated and spontaneous; we know of many of the protests only because there happened to be newsmen in the area. The demonstrations were not, for the most part, tremendously effective, but they were tremendously exhilarating. And obviously the start of something bigger...
Perhaps. But Americans, weary of bickering and division, had been looking eagerly for heroes who could inspire a healing outburst of spontaneous affection and patriotism...
...well as former soldiers of Saigon's army, they fled the oppressive Hanoi regime in increasing numbers. Soon the exodus was joined by hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese, who were routed from their ancestral homes in Viet Nam in the spring of 1978 during a fierce outburst of anti-Chinese racism by Hanoi. More than a quarter of a million people who left Viet Nam by boat - most of them children - are be lieved to have perished at sea because passing ships refused to help them, or Asian governments denied them haven. For 384,000 surviving boat people...
...informing New York magazine that he would not shake hands with Jimmy Carter at the Inauguration because the President "has the morals of a snake." Said Ron: "I will never forgive the he way he called my father a racist and a warmonger," though he later regretted the outburst as an "unfortunate moment of candor...
...Dada was outburst and outrage. It shook the cultural world, and its repercussions are still being felt. Some mention of contemporary endeavors would have rendered the material in the ICA show more conspicuously relevant to the present. Without such allusions, the apt timing of the exhibit looks like just a fortunate accident, an artistic coincidence--not a conscious design. More than simply betraying the spirit of Dada in straitjacketing its works, the ICA's presentation is a model of how museums function more as mausoleums than as regenerative forces that revive the art of the past to engage contemporary audiences...