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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the maelstrom began to swirl along the streets, the burgeoning sense of black identity took hold of staid citizens, who once would have shown up merely for the spectacle. In Pittsburgh, Moses Carper, 35, the scholarly, bearded editor of a Negro neighborhood paper, declared: "When the first window shattered it was like a bell ringing. I was running in the streets, running from cops, running from my own fears. I had to know this involvement, and when it came, it was like a release...
...Except by the Daily News, a Republican paper in Welch, which editorialized: "Bobby Kennedy is uninvited, unwanted, undesirable, unethical, unfit, unloved, unprepared, unshorn, unpopular and overrated...
Limiting the study to white individual artists perhaps increase the resemblance of this paper to Andrew Sarris's rankings of American directors in Film Culture (to continue the cinema parallel). But this is a fertile field, without question, and while the categories of "groups" and Negro performers may be of equivalent stature, the category of white individuals is schematically the logical starting point and should provide more handles for the novitiate to grasp...
...alive. Representatives from about 25 institutions met to form a Cambridge-based Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, chaired by Professor John R. Watt, who teaches Chinese history at MIT. The Committee will publish a news-letter, draw up a statement commenting on the Tuxedo Park Statement (a "moderate" position paper by 14 prominent scholars), disseminate information to Congress, and generally "start publicizing the growing concern over Asian affairs and make ourselves known as consultants on current Assian issues...
...first primary is May 7, in Indiana, a conservative state whose rural lower half is as southern as Mississippi. Roger D. Branigin, the most popular governor in the state's history, controls the amazingly powerful party organization. The leading paper in the state, the Indianapolis Star, buries news of Kennedy and McCarthy deep in stories headlining Branigin's latest support from county leaders. Branigin entered the primary as a stand-in for Johnson, and polls showed him leading Kennedy and McCarthy. After Johnson's withdrawal, he decided to stay in the contest, probably to hold his state for Humphrey...