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...black village of Brooklyn, Ill. (pop. 1,700), a fragmented checkerboard of streets lined with shanty houses, is hardly the stuff of legends. With most of its residents on welfare or receiving some other form of public assistance, Brooklyn has depended for its existence chiefly on the raffish trace of night life it provides blacks and whites who after hours cross the Mississippi River from nearby St. Louis, Mo., to visit the village's all-night bars. Recently Brooklyn gained another kind of notoriety when it became the scene of a drama full of Western overtones and old-style...
...outrage at the assassination of President Kennedy. His strongest qualities as an artist are energy and a prodigal memory. One need not have known New York in the 1930s to feel nostalgia when looking at this book. Fasanella is 59, and much of his world has already disappeared without trace...
Last month's Dump Truck presented a series of articles on superpower imperialism. The different perspectives tried to trace the changing ways in which the world's most powerful nations established empires. Although complex networks of financial, political, and cultural institutions have replaced colonial governments as common agents of imperial control, the consequences of imperialism are much the same today as they always were: economic dependence, political control, social inequality, cultural repression, and pure and simple human suffering...
...short, gray-haired and innocent looking. He never gets excited or raises his voice. He looks gentle and unimportant. People wonder what he ever did to raise any furor. And then he says things--very calmly always--like "I'd like to talk about the way we can trace the intelligence of Negroes to their percentage of Caucasian blood...
...carry a show. He is aided by scripts and direction that reveal a sharp feeling for the city's tough lingo, roach-infested tenements and lurid neon street scenes. Last week Kojak solved the murder of a topless go-go dancer. The key clue that allowed him to trace the dead girl: the scars from silicone treatments on her breasts...