Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial antagonism. The Springfield fight followed heckling by white students of Negro youths seeking service at a nearby cafe. In the Chicago suburb of Maywood, the failure of a student selection committee at Proviso East High to nominate a single Negro girl for homecoming queen set off a protest rally in which some 500 youths hurled bottles at police...
...tall (6 ft. 8 in.), brainy Negro, passed them all up to become an assistant professor of sociology at virtually all-white San Jose because "scholarship was my longest suit." Not quite. For the past six months, Harry's long suit has been Black Power and bitter protest-specifically, a campaign to cajole or coerce Negro athletes into boycotting what he considers "white-dominated" sporting events, from next fall's Mexico City Olympics on down...
...Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only a bit embarrassed. But for Mailer's reportorial eye and his caustic comments on an America overwhelmed by institutionalism, his version of the Pentagon march might have become far too personal. As it is, he reveals the diversity and ethical intricacy of the protest movement as no reporter has yet done...
FOLK MUSIC Sing Love, Not Protest I have nothing to sing you that you've never heard...
...walk onstage, man, all I can give them is me." It is all that most of today's young singers in the folk groove can give. Traditional folk singers-including the modern figure of Bob Dylan-have usually been purveyors of a musical heritage, chroniclers of their time, protesters against injustice. But today's troubadours are turning away from protest. Their gaze is shifting from the world around them to the realms within. "They are taking stock of what they are," says one folk buff, "purging themselves until they feel sensitive and pure...