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That dispute has now led to this angry polemic from ten Negroes. They accuse Styron of distorting history when he describes the rebellion as "the only effective sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery"; they maintain that there were numerous others. They dispute Styron's judgment that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Will the Real Nat Turner Please Stand Up? | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Except for the fact that she is 55 years old and a woman, Novelist Mary McCarthy would be an Angry Young Man. Last year she reported from South Viet Nam, turning her fierce, polemic prose on everything she saw, particularly the Americanization of Saigon ("a gigantic PX") and the moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tea at the War Crimes Museum | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

Endecott-played by Kenneth Haigh with the weary administrative sanity of Shaw's Caesar-is aware of the mourn ful carnage of retribution and revenge, and initially is reluctant to take any brutal measures against the colony. But then a clerical emissary from England arrives to announce that King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Endecott & the Red Cross | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

Mary Daly, 39, attacks Catholicism's built-in prejudice against women in a lively polemic called The Church and the Second Sex, (Harper & Row; $4.95). Unmarried, and the only female theology professor at Jesuit-run Boston College, she has three doctorates in religion and philosophy and is an avowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Rib Uncaged | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

(7 of 10) swirling unrest, Alexander Dubček entered the fray, carrying the banner of Slovak nationalism. As party boss of Slovakia, he rose at a Central Committee meeting in October and launched a fiery polemic against Novotný for breaking his promises and neglecting the development of Slovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Into Unexplored Terrain | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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