Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tired of books like Race Riots New York 1964, published soon after an event for the sole purpose of selling copies. Fred C. Shapiro and James Sullivan have produced the almost inevitable hodge-podge of decent reporting, vignettes both tired and telling, and banal analysis that rarely moves beyond the superficialities of a Time cover story. Thomsa Y. Crowell Company, the publisher, might just as well have reprinted old newspaper articles with an appendix of personal reminiscences from policemen, reporters, and others present during the ricts...
Shapiro and Sullivan tell the story of the "sleek, middle-aged man in Bermuda shorts" who told them, "These are not the real people of Harlem. These are not the people who make Harlem great. Tell your readers there is a good element in Harlem." A few minutes later they saw the same man "his bare knees pumping and his fists waving in the air as he screamed, 'Kill the mother--whiteys...
...times Shapiro and Sullivan seemingly lose perspective. At the start they admit the riots covered only a small area and involved only a small number--estimated at a maximum of 8,000. Then they talk as if rioting consumed the passions of a vast proportion of New York's Negroes. It did not. Significantly, those who rioted were primarily youths, and they cared little for their community's leaders. They booed Bayard Rustin as he tried to pull them off the streets; they did the same to James Farmer as he belatedly asked for responsibility...
...meets regularly with agent James T. Sullivan '36 to discuss student matters. "He'll never ask anything confidential. He's never been indiscreet with me," Watson says...
...does seem strange, however, that a College official who claims to have the student's interests as his first concern would be willing to gossip regularly with the FBI. Perhaps agent Sullivan is, in fact, "discreet," but we would prefer that the individual student decide what is confidential--not Dean Watson. Perhaps it is difficult to get students and agents together, but we would prefer that the FBI make and follow up its own appointments--not Dean Watson. Quite simply, the Dean of Students has no business acting as an operative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, however innocent...