Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LONDON is the town of the tall red double-decker buses, the buses which always appear to be on the verge of overturning as they twist top-heavily around the City's corners and through its narrow streets. The only person to keep his balance is the ticket collector, who passes up and down the aisle with easy poise, bending over each seat and rolling out a ticket from the machine hitched to his belt...
Until the Second World War, many Britishers had never seen a colored person. During the War, they found American Negro soldiers stationed all over the country, but Americans were foreigners and they left as soon as the War was over. The '50's and early '60's, however, brought an important change. Mother of an empire, Britain felt obligated to open its arms to any subject of a Commonwealth nation. Most of these nations are predominantly colored, and most of them enjoy standards of living considerably below those of Great Britain. The result was predictable. Large numbers of colored Commonwealth...
Such feelings of frustration and ineffectiveness are usually reserved, it seems, for the oppressed segments of society. A person born into a situation of thick frustration and little expectation for change is immobilized. But when somebody who has always had it pretty good--who has had a relatively easy time getting his wishes fulfilled--experiences this inability to control what happens to his own life, it is often a radicalizing experience...
FRED LEAVITT'S a nice guy. A shy, gentle, intelligent person, he immediately strikes one as being some kind of intellectual. Put a few more years, a few more pounds on him, and he'd make a passable Mr. Chips. In reality, he's a scientist...
...Zellner, first white person on the SNCC Staff (1961), will meet with students at 1 p.m. today in PBH. Zellner is currently organizing poor whites in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama...