Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facing, daily and nightly, people who would gladly see him dead, and he knows it. He moves through Harlem, therefore, like an occupying soldier in a bitterly hostile country, which is precisely what, and where...
...soldier of the cities is the cop, I his front line the American ghetto. Harlem, Watts, Roxbury, Hough, Hunters Point, the South Side, Dixie Hills, Bedford-Stuyvesant: these are the battlegrounds whose names are inscribed in rubble and resentment and fear of worse conflagrations to come. Already this year, serious disturbances have broken out in 211 cities and towns. Even when they are quiet, vast areas of the American metropolis today resemble combat zones, volatile, bitter and suspicious...
...with the characters who for once look almost like real people fat, scrawny, drab, sassy, ordinary. He is caught up in a Jell-O ad, in which a snatch of conversation and a glimpse of beaming faces around the dinner table capture the mood and moment of a young soldier home on furlough. He is washed in nostalgia as a Kodak spot scans a lifetime by focusing on a greying couple as they rummage through old snapshots. Says Adman David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife." Adwoman Mary Wells, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, sounds...
...BLACK AMERICA (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Second in a seven-part series, "The Black Soldier" follows the history of the Negro in our wars from the Revolutionary days up to the black G.I. in Viet Nam. George Foster narrates...
Versus the Draft In Welksley, Mass., last week, FBI agents walked through the open door of the local Unitarian-Universalist Church armed with an arrest warrant. The man they wanted was Richard W. Scott, a 20-year-old soldier who had deserted his unit as a war resister, and they had come to the right place to find him. The Rev. Robert Gardiner, with the approval of his congregation, had just granted the youth the ancient right of church sanctuary. It was a symbolic gesture, of course, since neither Scott nor his protectors tried to stop the FBI from taking...