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...club that excludes whites is no more appealing to me than the idea of a final club that excludes Negroes and all but the least Jewish Jews. Replacing one racial exclusiveness with another, even in the name of a "necessary negritude," appears to me to be one of the saddest side-effects of the civil rights movement. Black nationalism, which may fit Africa but cannot fit the United States, is what the Afro-American Association has symbolized...
...crystalline quality; it is dense, sharp well polished--a verbal statue commemorating in abstract from the general contours of Mr. Epps" thought. In abstract form, unfortunately, his thought looks much like anyone else's thought. He has reached for the sublime and come up with the ordinary. And, saddest of all, the essay often approaches the cryptic, and inevitably becomes a puzzle to the reader. Instead of moving him, it leaves him either confused or complacently proud that he has figured...
...sculpture, smeared his walls with paint. Wyeth refused to prosecute. Instead, he invited the vandals around for a talk, forgiving the eight who showed up last week when they apologized and promised to do what they could to repay the $2,000 worth of damage. "I am left feeling saddest," said Wyeth, "about the failure of us who are responsible in some way for these youths. They said they had nothing to do, and I believe so deeply in the preciousness of time and in the creative...
...suavely ingratiating to have killed a brother and seized a crown. He is more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine her at bridge than in the "rank sweat of an enseamed bed." The saddest thing about Linda Marsh's Ophelia is how far beyond her grasp the part...
...saddest of all were the adults caught in the middle, those who could not decide whether to go with the tide of the new morality or to stand by their parents' ideals. "I just don't know; I like it, but I know it's bad," one Bayonne, N.J., housewife explained...