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...seeking organization with new roots in the ghettos. Before Young's arrival, the League's image had been that of a research-oriented interracial group whose members prowled libraries and whose middle-class contributors munched cream-cheese-and-olive sandwiches at suburban teas, while deploring the plight of city blacks. Under Young, the League helped 54,000 blacks find jobs; it and its affiliates raised or funnelled $45 million into such practical programs as its street academies for high school dropouts and its job-training facilities in 100 cities. "Pride and dignity come when you reach in your...
...like," says Father Colin Davison. An Anglican priest in South Africa for seven years, Davison ran the educational program of the ecumenical, multiracial Christian Institute there. He was told to leave the country last month and is now back in England. Davison is not alone in his plight. Since Feb. 1, twelve clergymen, all foreign nationals, have been ordered out of South Africa in a harsh silencing of clerical voices that have been raised against apartheid...
Miss Loden manages at times to make the heart ache for Wanda's rootlessness and empty-headed plight. As a director, she captures the ambience of small-time roadhouses with compelling accuracy; she manages through some clever location photography (done in and around the Pennsylvania coal-mining country) to convey an almost overwhelming sense of lingering desperation. Her debut as a director, despite its flaws, is both welcome and promising. · Jay Cocks
...story tells the plight of Miles Faber, a wealthy young pedant who is determined to visit the Caribbean island of Castita in order to discover facts about a totally unsung native poet named Sib Legeru. His innocent search soon plunges him into confrontations with menacing strangers who demand answers to fantastic questions instead of replying to Miles' simple ones. Worse, he learns that not only is he the child of an incestuous union but that he also has both a sister and a double on the island. Murder and mayhem follow with appropriate speed...
...moments when Mailer certainly does try, he can't seem to rid himself of the preconception that the Archetypal American Woman is The Dutiful Little Homemaker. He begins the piece in Harber's, in fact, by recreating a scenario intended to prove just how sympathetic he is to the plight of the Sink-Chained American Woman...