Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Place Is Safe. Bill Alexander, 26, recalls that as a small boy in the Negro section of Stroudsburg, Pa., he was often offered money by white college boys who came through on the prowl for black girls. "It has been taken for granted since slavery that white men can seek out black women any time they want," he says...
...those Negroes who would leave it to us whites to "defend the idea of 'blue-eyed soul,' " I would like to point out that the "funky Memphis rhythm section" that became the vehicle which made it possible for Aretha to dp her thing is composed of all white musicians...
...Bulgarian Jews to German death camps. The defense plea was a familiar one for postwar Germany: the defendant had not known what was happening in those camps. Defense lawyers summoned Kiesinger on the grounds that if he, as acting chief of the Foreign Ministry's radio-propaganda section at the time, did not know about the camps, then Nazi diplomats who did not have similar access to foreign broadcasts would know even less...
...clashes began after 500 leftist students announced their plans to occupy an unused downtown department store, which they hoped to convert into a with-it club for evenings of pop music and hippie happenings. Conservative city fathers decided that the heart of Zurich's hallowed banking section, from which the city's famous Gnomes conduct their mysterious business, was no place for such a frivolous establishment. The students arrived to find the department store ringed with police...
...second and final section, covering 1940-1947, seems to lack the revelatory authority of Weiss's earlier disorders and sorrows. Now in Sweden, he is no longer an innocent freshman questing, but rather a jaded graduate detouring. He revolves in typical refugee circles, begins to bed down casually, regards paternity indifferently, soon marries carelessly. Although still a painter, he has also started to dabble at writing -in Swedish-but he has yet to commit himself fully either to art or to his own life...