Word: randomized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CRISIS IN BLACK AND WHITE by Charles E. Silberman. 370 pages. Random House...
...KNOXVILLE, TENN.: Touring the city's slums, Johnson selected a seedy apartment building at random and went to chat with a weary woman with a babe-in-arms and torn sneakers. He emerged looking grim. At Knoxville's Coliseum, he tore into political critics of his poverty crusade. "Those who oppose us are determined. They have already, last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, called this war on poverty a cruel hoax. I first heard that phrase in the 1936 campaign when they called social security a cruel hoax...
PEDRO MARTINEZ by Oscar Lewis. 507 pages. Random House...
...drama becomes sociosexual cheesecake, an oversized slice of Danish blue. The camera records what the characters do, but offers few insights into the individuals or the society that produced them. Cruelly stomping down a child's sand castle, raising hob in a roadhouse, or pairing off at random, they seem little more than anonymous delinquents-the kind of blank, boisterous folk that cause the family trade to gather up their towels and baskets and move to a nice quiet spot at the far end of the beach...
FLOOD by Robert Perm Warren. 440 pages. Random House...