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Nevertheless, he added, the Administration "faces a credibility gap of enormous proportions" with blacks. He noted that Nixon had "asked black Americans to judge him by his deeds and not his words; we have done that-and we have been greatly disappointed." He revived his 1963 plea for a domestic Marshall Plan to help all poor people, black and white...
...also be unbearably sluggish, something that the Harpo troupe might well improve during the summer Agassiz run). But the production is a 1title too cute, and some of the actors create dreadful characters that seem carved out of soap, so that finally the message of the play-a plea for leisure in a suicidal, capitalistic world-becomes lost in a context whose sophistication administers only a put-on frame of mind...
Despite its plea for uncomplicated emotions, this is a lavish production. Senclick clearly has a vision of the theater that has matured to the point of developing contradictions and he has wisely allowed them to stand unresolved. As locasto says, "Truth is not human. It has no mercy...
...Reveille for Radicals. Alinsky makes an eloquent plea for genuine democratic action. While the conceptual institution of American democracy may by revered by representatives of the Republican Democratic political spectrum, implementation of the basic tenets of the system, especially in governmental inventions such as the CAP, is weak. Must it be that way? As Alinsky underlines, "A fundamental issue that will resolve the fate of democracy is whether or not we really believe in democracy...
...national campaign which kicked off UNAF included a plea for every college teacher dissatisfied with the war to donate one day's pay to be distributed by the group to anti-war candidates. The group-which includes among its directors Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, and John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics-has collected more than $70,000 so far, and has pledges for $20,000 more...