Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tiger Tiger Burning Bright, by Peter S. Feibleman, is a little like a Negro Glass Menagerie. The widowed mother (Claudia McNeil) is a ferocious matriarch with a personality as forbidding as a medieval fortress. She has ringed her brood with a moat of make-believe, fearfully shielding them from the outside world. Her daughter (Ellen Holly) is retreating into a tormenting mental twilight of blinding headaches...
...tiger of the title (Alvin Ailey) is an inarticulate rebel, snarling and moping about the house. Mama pins her faith to a framed telegram, a next-of-kin death notice for another son killed in World War II, that hangs on the bleak wall of her shanty on the outskirts of New Orleans. It is proof that the boy, who she feared would end in jail, died a hero's death instead...
Gradually, this faith is destroyed. The gifts-money, a stove, earrings-that the tiger has lavished on his mother in the guise of promotion benefits from his job with the telegraph company are revealed to be thefts from the homes of whites. Moreover, he is a male prostitute catering to the jaded tastes of some of the richer white women in town. He hasn't delivered a telegram for years; the last one is on the wall, a fake he made up as a teenager to give his mother the comforting lie that she craved...
...have floundered." He warned farmers that a "vast bureaucracy of tens of thousands of political payrollers is around our neck." Then, switching to a proverb he never heard in his own Illinois. Shuman said: "Our situation in agriculture brings to mind the old adage, 'He who rides a tiger should first make plans for dismounting.' The challenge farmers face is how to dismount the farm program 'tiger' without getting wounded...
Crackpots & Liars. Young has been less of a tiger in proposing legislation, though he did introduce a resolution to grant Winston Churchill honorary American citizenship. A great believer in the man looking the role, Young opposed Kennedy at the 1960 convention. His reason: he had seen Kennedy stripped down in the Senate gymnasium-and thought the young Senator was too skinny for the presidency...