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...Token integration for New Orleans' first-grade pupils is scheduled for Nov. 14, but only 135 Negro children have applied. All "integrated" classes will be segregated by sex. Even these minimal plans may yet be killed by Louisiana's guitar-twanging Governor Jimmie Davis, who insists that he will allow no integration...
...times, as well as the students, were appropriate for action. Sit-ins began in the border states, precisely where the implementation of the Supreme Court's 1954 school decision was evident, and where the Negro had been less intimidated than the deep South. After six years, there was "token integration" and little more in a number of school systems. Southern Negro college students recognized that token equality is in effect no equality...
...deliberate mastery of the medium. He has superb control of his camera. His images are continuously beautiful but never obtrusive; they rise out of the story as naturally as thoughts rise out of the pool of Vishnu-there is nothing arty in Ray's art. By the same token his actors act, not with the usual bombinations of Oriental drama, but as though the camera had found them alone and simply living; and they live, as few characters in pictures do, real lives that swell to the skin with pain and poetry and sudden mother wit. Actor Chatterjee...
...medieval monachal center of Cluny, held a major celebration. All 45 of the brothers were on hand for the occasion, half of them traveling to France from work abroad (two came from an ecumenical center at Stoughton, Mass.), and in their white, hooded robes they were an impressive token of devotion in the tiny chapel. But no outsider would readily recognize the most unusual thing about the monks of Taizé, who call themselves simply members of "the community": they are not Catholic; every one of them is a Protestant...
...were in 125 west Texas districts. There were 22 in one Miami school and 490 in another that had only eight white students. In the rest of the South, the number rose from 199 the year before to 400. Yet even that tiny gain, most of it token integration, was the biggest in history. What will happen this year...