Word: tysons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. By reverse alchemy, Carson McCullers' novel is turned into dross, but two outstanding performances almost redeem the project: Alan Arkin as a poignant deaf-mute, and Cicely Tyson as the embodiment of the slogan "Black is Beautiful...
...town, Arkin moves through a gallery of Southern gothic tragedy. A fellow mute (Chuck McCann) does violence to a store window, and is committed to a mental institution, where he dies. A Negro doctor who befriends Singer is racked with cancer, and has a hostile, hate-drugged daughter (Cicely Tyson...
...surrounding emotional landscape is alternately barren or soggy, but Arkin's performance gives Heart the systolic beat of life. He is helped by lanky Sondra Locke as a typical McCullers adolescent whose burgeoning body and psyche can neither retreat to childhood nor advance to maturity, and by Tyson, an absolute embodiment of the slogan "Black is beautiful...
...boycotting the Olympic Games athletes "will show America that black people do make contributions here," Tyson said. But the role that blacks can play as athletes in the rights movement is small...
Because athletic competition tends to be apolitical, any problems that black athletes encounter are those that any black student at Harvard finds. While Tyson said that Harvard's outlook is "definitely racist," Winfield said that the university is "not racist but pretty conservative...