Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail...
...film, "Black Natchez," records the personal observations of Davied Neuman '62, research assistant in Social Psychology, and Edward Pincus, doctorial candidate in Philosophy. They spent four months in the summer of 1965 filming candid scenes of Negro emotional reaction to white threats and racial violence in the Mississippi town...
...Coffee and Sour Cream," a one-hour drama on an inter-racial romance marred by a Negro gang, was written by members of Roxbury's Teenage Action Group. It is the first time a play written entirely by a high-school group will appear at the Loeb...
Others included Dr. Walter Gilbert, associate professor of Biophysics, genetic control mechanisms in bacteria and viruses; Dr. Frederick A. Olagson, professor of Education and Philosophy - a study of rational explanation in history; Dr. Thomas F. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology -- a study of the consequences of varying racial compositions in public schools...
Obviously, Hurry Sundown was intended as a paean to racial justice, but Producer-Director Otto Preminger chooses strange ways to display his big brotherhood. One sequence shows Negro sharecroppers singing a white-eyed hallelujah number reminiscent of those '40s films that pretended to liberalize but patently patronized. Two hours of such cinematic clichés make the viewer intolerant of everyone in the film, regardless of race, creed or color...