Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better hat up, Rodent, because it looks like Black Man is here to stay. Thanks to Tom Floyd, a Gary, Ind., commercial artist, young blacks can look up to an authentic soul hero. The first edition of Black Man Comics will shortly hit the newsstands with a very soulful twist on the requisite introductory issue: like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel, Black Man is born of the transformation of a clean-cut young man into a creature possessed of superhuman powers...
...black student-athlete named Steve Thomas with peanuts soaked in the mysterious chemical X. Wearing a slave-chain medallion, a cloth suit with the curse of Nat Turner upon it, and special boots that will enable him to fly by "lifting yourself by your own bootstraps," Black Man, the Soul Wonder of the World, sets out to "rid the universe of poverty, crime and racial bigotry." His arch enemies are Rodent, who breeds on filth and spreads disease; Riot, an immense black gone mad with the craving for destruction; and Narcotics, a heinous figure with hypodermic needles in place...
...since the days when Nixon, a freshman Congressman from California, had begun his pursuit of Alger Hiss and "the Communist conspiracy." Hoover, said Nixon, "was one of the giants, a man who helped keep steel in America's backbone and the flame of freedom in America's soul...
...SOUL: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte show and discuss scenes from their new film. "Buck and the Preacher." 8. May 15. Chan...
Passionately and erratically combining scholarship with manifesto writing, Novak begins his argument with a rather familiar counterattack. The WASP model for behavior has got to go. WASP America, "more like a religion than like a nation," has demanded of its joiners a "conversion of the soul." Novak blames the WASP for everything from birth control to Women's Lib ("infected with WASP individualism"). Say "WASP" to Novak and he sees cold "modernity," antiseptic blandness. Say "ethnic" and he sees colorful people, starring at family feasts, full of a fierce loyalty to their neighborhood and to the old pieties-spiritually...