Word: silberman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just out of Harvard or Columbia, are careful to pronounce Don Quixote with the hard X. None possess the depth or complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like...
...look deep into our Jewish conscience, we admit that it is right that the Negro should expect more of us." Lelyveld has given his share; as a civil rights worker in Hattiesburg, Miss., five years ago he was attacked and severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman, author of Crisis in Black and White: "Justice is an act, not a state of mind. Our obligation in no way hinges on the merits of the person or the people to whom justice is owed." To expect or solicit the love of the black, he says, is both pathological...
...scene of rioting after-not before-the enactment of a whole spate of Great Society programs. To a degree, the programs themselves are to blame: they have awakened the Negro to what is available in America's opulent society and whetted his appetite for more. And, as Charles Silberman noted in his Crisis in Black and White: "The Negroes' impatience, bitterness, and anger are likely to increase the closer they come to full equality." In his desire for "more," the Negro has joined the rest of the crowd. But in his realization that he has a terribly long...
...truth, the Payton paper bordered on the psychopathological. (Although perhaps not: it was broadcast by the hundreds at the time, and achieved its objective brilliantly. But when Rainwater and Yancey recently asked to reproduce it in their book, Payton declined.) Charles M. Silberman, author of Crisis in Black and White, called it "the most blatant distortion that I can remember seeing in a long time." In a letter to a Presbyterian minister he wrote...
...Silberman concluded that the realistic goal of the movement must be the acquisition of power by the Negro. "Power, not integrated lunch counters, schools, or equal or preferential treatment is what they want...