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...Going to Stay." In a public move to stanch the nation's unrest, the President decided to turn an address to the National Legislative Conference in San Antonio into a major policy speech. His timing, uncharacteristically, was bad. Only NBC-TV aired him live. As a result, most Americans missed a hard-hitting speech, briskly delivered without...
...unions' attitude symbolizes a growing unrest over Wilson's efforts to ease Britain's balance-of-payments problem by a deflationary squeeze that hit the public first with tighter credit and a wage freeze, then hit it again with rising prices. Said Tory Leader Ted Heath in a burst of unusual asperity: "The country should explode with anger at the stupidity and incompetence of this Labor government, which stands paralyzed while unemployment of its own creation mounts...
Others have served up the subject matter before, but have always done so in small doses--diluting, as Claude Weaver '65 puts it, "the hundred-proof truth with large draughts of humanitarian appeal." Wright's sociological and philosophical monograph, Black Power and Urban Unrest, demonstrates a surprising measure of clarity as well as intuition, acute political savvy as well as a cultivated sense of outrage...
These are the kinds of contributions Black Power and Urban Unrest has to offer...
...signs of unrest in our cities are unquestionably but the early warning signals of a growing division between the two Americas. A man taught to hate himself can do no less than grow in his hatred of others... on the other hand, it is reasonable to resent one's having to feed forever another man or other men who do not work, whose outrage gives rise to riots and whose resultant irresponsibility ruffles the wanted quiet and peaceableness of our communities throughout the land. Two nations, two Americas, are being built; and they are set on a deadly collision course...