Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NONFICTION 1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
...would like to commend Tommie Smith and John Carlos for their actions of silent protest during the Olympic ceremonies [Oct. 25]. Black Americans are treated first as blacks, secondly as Americans in this country. The allegiance of these black athletes first to their people, and secondly to America is understandable and constructive. Their willingness to participate in the games shows their loyalty to their country; their actions of protest show their loyalty to the underprivileged of our nation. It is concern like theirs, and the courage and conviction to express their protest in the face of condemnation by the Establishment...
This last idea is the uncontroversial theme of Tony Richardson's new film, The Charge of the Light Brigade. Like the book on which it is based (Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why), the film begins by depicting a stratified and deluded English society, and then moves swiftly on to the Crimea, where the stratification and the delusion find their ultimate projection in an insane battle on an unearthly field...
Shocked by the extreme severity of the punishment, other U.S. athletes-both black and white-rallied to Smith and Carlos' defense. "This is terrible, awful," said Highjumper Ed Caruthers, a Negro. "If Tommie and John have to go home," said Sprinter Ron Freeman, "I think there will be a lot of guys going home." "Some white ones too," added Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. Most distraught by Smith and Carlos' suspension was their close friend and fellow militant Lee Evans, favorite to win last week's 400-meter dash at Mexico City. So shaken that...
...saddest thing about the ruckus raised by Tommie Smith and John Carlos was that it dulled the lustre of a superlative track and field meet in which the U.S. once again demonstrated that it is the world's best. The Star-Spangled Banner was played so often that it began to sound like The Stars and Stripes Forever...