Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toni begins with a group of immigrant entering a southern French village, and follows them through a few years of work, marriage, estrangement, friendship, death--all the processes of their lives. The setting is strongly established in the first shots (in a train); and its importance, in the characters' conversations and in the shooting style, is maintained throughout. In outdoor scenes the characters are integrated into the landscape, made part of the natural pattern. These shots of the land have a geometrical quality of which the figures are only one element...
...recent black sit-in over Planning 113-b has been decried as one of the greatest blows to academic freedom since the McCarthy era. Shortly after the incident, I happened to be visiting a large Southern city and found that news of the incident had preceeded me there...
Since the appearance of Jensen's article, friends at Oxford & Cambridge, McGill, and the University of the West Indies have written to me and seriously questioned the merits of an institution which could allow its name to be appended to such an article. In true American style, Southern courts have already begun to quote the article as fact. I suspect, too, that our friends in South Africa will exult when they read it. All things considered, the article should go a long way toward establishing cordial relations between black statesmen and educators around the world and Harvard and the Americans...
...Three cheers for Senator Hollings for speaking up about the startling and uncomfortable facts of hunger in the Southern states [Feb. 28]. While the U.S.'s foreign aid hand stretches out unselfishly, its domestic aid hand slouches lazily in its pocket. Does this hand realize the difficulty in developing potential on an empty stomach...
Willie D., of Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., has simply reduced the feat of record breaking to a routine. In one remarkable string of eight meets this season, he twice equaled the world indoor record for the 60-yd. hurdles and set new world marks...