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Gene Jones, a local Panther, detailed the event at a news conference yesterday. The Police harassed the Roxbury headquarters with spotlights and guns for about 15 minutes and then returned to the police station, he said...
...Tuesday morning approximately 40 armed policemen surrounded the Boston Black Panther Party headquarters, a Black Panther spokesman claimed...
Scene 1 (large portions of it originally printed in a June issue of New York magazine) centers on that now famous money-raising party for the Black Panthers given in Conductor Leonard Bernstein's Manhattan apartment last January. For the occasion (TIME, Jan. 26), Wolfe coined the phrase "radical chic." He thus described the tendency among bright blooded, moneyed or otherwise distinguished New Yorkers−lately grown weary of plodding, via media middle-class institutions like the Heart Ball, the U.J.A. and the N.A.A.C.P.−to take up extreme, exotic, earthy and more titillating causes. To hear Wolfe tell...
...frivolous type who has done little more than shoot fish in a brandy snifter. Happily, the gathering−and with it Tom Wolfe's look-homeward-recording-angel prose−Soon begins to reflect depths of confusion and true social comedy. There is a remarkable moment when Panther Defense Minister Don Cox talks of police harassment, evoking the Reichstag fire (blacks now, Jews next is the thought), then reads the Declaration of Independence to justify talk about Revolution Now. Eventually Bernstein and Guests Otto Preminger and TV Reporter Barbara Walters, somewhat apologetically and with few results...
...giveaway; white liberals are pure patsies. As a result, he will endure not merely the embarrassing approval of the Neanderthals ("You see! you see!") but the threat of stoning at the hands of enraged reformers and black extremists alike. When a TIME reporter recently asked a minister of the Panther Party's shadow government about the truthfulness of Wolfe's Radical Chic account, the reply was ominous: "You mean that dirty, blatant, lying, racist dog who wrote that fascist disgusting thing in New York magazine...