Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare to set a pattern; if anything, the cur rent trend indicates a discouraging deterioration. But the scattered alliances formed thus far suggest exciting possibilities - and a clear challenge for unions, corporations and politicians at every level to work toward an atmosphere of tolerance based upon rational self-interest...
Whistle in Relief The anger in forgotten America has begun to express it self in politics. In addition to the Nixon election itself, it has influenced mayoralty votes from Los Angeles to Min neapolis to New York City (although each represented a spe cial situation that made its significance far from clear...
...class whites need to see that their long-range interest lies not in defending the status quo but in organizing themselves to change it; the problem is how to convince white workers that social change can benefit them and not just Negroes. Blacks, too, need to recognize that their self-interest lies not in sterile separatism but in new coalitions with working-class whites. The nation's leaders must not play off one group against the other, but must show that blacks can make gains even while lower-middle-class whites do too. This is an extremely difficult task...
...SELF-PARODY is the price of style...
...broader the parody, the bigger the self. Wayne has been honing and buffing that self in some 250 pictures ?mostly westerns?for 40 years. He has become the essential American soul that D. H. Lawrence once characterized as "harsh, isolate, stoic and a killer." Superficially his films have been as alike as buffalo nickels. Only the date changes; even the Indian looks the same. Yet through the decades there has been a perceptible alteration. The public, riding along in movie houses or taking the TV shortcut, has watched the celluloid Wayne pass through three stages of life...