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Ferguson is not expecting dramatic overnight changes in police-Chicano relations. But already at least one potential explosion was defused by the live-in sessions. Shortly after his barrio stint, Carroll was arresting a Chicano who attempted to rob a store. As usual, a jeering mob gathered and started heckling the patrolman. Then he recognized a youth he had met while living in the barrio. The two men exchanged greetings; the crowd grew silent and slowly melted away. "All of a sudden, the hostility was gone," recalls Carroll. He adds: "We all have these preconceived ideas...
...think, because his skill at recording his special type of dialogue in his peculiar tones hinders his ambition to be a novelist of wider talents. The German poet Rilke warned one young poet that "he must always remain unconscious, unsuspecting of his best virtues, if he would not rob them of their ingenuousness and untouchedness!" Higgins seems to be filching his greatest talent...
However, Tom Bernhard and Rob Rubin combined for another score midway through the second half to provide the winning margin...
...minutes of John Cage silence. No guts, no drawing, no life: nothing but wind and delusion. Benton made no bones about his idea that nearly everything in art since the Fauves had been rubbish at best, and at worst the fruit (so to speak) of a homosexual conspiracy to rob the U.S. of its primal manly culture. The American museum, he grumbled, was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with a curving wrist and a swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible to the people. Yet, in the end, one wonders if the tribunal to which Benton submitted...
...Gary, Indiana, thugs have invaded church services and meetings to rob and in one case, even rape parishioners. Clergymen of several denominations recently organized a committee to fight the barbarism. The New Mount Olive Baptist church took more direct action this month, after bandits shot up the church during a heist. Some New Mount Olive parishioners armed themselves and now stand guard while dressed in their Sunday best...