Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot of Sons of Darkness is as painfully simple-and as compley-as the historical relationship between whites and blacks in America. The novel is set in New York City in the year 1973. Eugene Browning number two man in the Institute for Racial Justice (IRJ) an Urban League-type organization, has reached the conclusion that his country really does not want him. His country is and always has been trying to kill him and his kind...
...observe: he has an exciting way of making his characters come alive-not jump but flow off the pages seep into the reader's mind so that, at a certain point in the novel, the character suddenly emerges, fully-fleshed and fully-human. Quickly and easily Williams skerches the relationship between his central characters: Browning, the Don. a now-inactive Mafia kingpin, and Itzhak Hod, the triggerman...
...bond between the three men is now complete. Each has suffered discrimination because of what he is; each has been forced to use violence to survive in a society that continually threatened his life. Of course the relationship between the black and the Jew is more easily established and identifiable. After all, what is the difference between the pogroms of pre-World War H Europe and the race riots of the United States? What is the difference between the discrimination practiced against the Jews in pre-war Europe and that practiced against blacks in America in 1973? The difference...
...Coed housing is possible without complete merger, but there must be some change in the contractual relationship and responsibility of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," he said. The Faculty presently has no legal responsibility for Radcliffe students outside of the classroom...
...Finally, both Kunstler and Boudin spoke of the relationship of the press and political cases. "It may be just as important to influence the public on a political issue as it is to influence the verdict of the judge," Boudin said...