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According to the Justice Department, 97% of Southern black children will attend integrated school systems next fall. For many, the experience will not be pleasant. They will find that thousands of white children have fled to new private "segregation academies." In many cases white school officials have sent public school equipment along with them. Louisiana went a step further last month by approving state financial support for private schools...
...audience, all well-dressed, all with impeccably-tied ties, laughed uproarously. They were laughing nostalgically, I think, pleased at the pleasant picture of middle-class life the whole thing was. I realized then that the real problem with the play was not why it failed, but why, as we head heedlessly toward apocalypse, it was done...
...thing is clearly a case of chicanery for profit and fame. The Philips contract has brought Rosemary $2,000 to $3,000 but can be expected to earn more. If Rosemary is in touch with Liszt, the best way to prove it is not to produce the lukewarm but pleasant Grubelei she claims to have received from him, but to discover something from the past, perhaps Liszt's now vanished manual of piano technique, which he wrote for the Geneva Conservatoire. The spirits that mediums raise always inconveniently refuse to answer the very questions that would prove their existence...
...beginning, Booker concedes, mod England made a pleasant enough dream, set to music by the Beatles and costumed by Mary Quant. It all seemed a carnival of wit and style. At moments the carnival even appeared to have direction. Plays like John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, novels like Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, revues like Beyond the Fringe seemed to be acts of ruddy good health against a moribund Establishment. Old England was dead. Long live new England...
...worst repression can be called "legal" then it is OK. "Illegality," becomes an aesthetic judgment. McCarthy had to be dealt with, for he too challenged the subtly-honed instrument of the liberal state, dragging it into the mire of recognizable personality. As Pusey says, those were not pleasant times. He finds them analogous to the present because he is once again threatened by voices which claim to speak for the people. Yet it is impossibly ignorant to say that because both right and left threaten the liberal center, they are the same...