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...minutes, a dozen from each side kept the shouting match alive, sometimes with a little shoving, the dialectic turned physical. For years, Harvard's Spartacus Youth League have held their weekly study session and speeches; for years they've been ignored by all but regular readers of Workers Vanguard. But last week they picked a topic explosive enough actually to draw some interest; their contention that Poland's Solidarity union should be busted before it replaced socialism with the profit system drew the fairly spontaneous and very angry crowd of protestors. After all, almost everybody in America (save the Sparts...
That, on the 68th page of Wolfe's airy 143-page volume, is the climax. From then on, it's merely the sad story of how an assertive intellectual vanguard forced the wretched glass boxes on corporations and federal agencies, which offered nary a peep of protest. Wolfe's best point--his most incisive, yet also the most obvious--is that this "worker" housing repelled any workers who had to live in it. They hated the International "vision of highrise hives of steel, glass, and concrete separated by open spaces of green lawn." The people tried anything to inject some...
Although Lady Diana is not much seen just now, what with all the royal tutorials and wedding preparations, she is already being widely imitated. Her haircut is copied. Her outfits are being knocked off. Her husband-to-be met a vanguard of Di clones in New Zealand on his trip, and commented, "Not as good as the real thing...
...artistic horizon and the other on the bottom line. "Film makers are not necessarily good administrators. And the concept of the studio is vitally important. But the majors understand the selling of films more than the making. Zoetrope is based on the new technology. We're in the vanguard of the electronic revolution, and I want the other studios to copy us. They can make excellent pictures and a lot of dough...
...just two months after the first sit-ins, its purpose was to coordinate protest. In subsequent years, it looked for sources of independent Black political power such as voter registration campaigns. But within six years, SNCC was in its dotage, became a feeble, vulnerable, yet ever more rhetorical intellectual vanguard in the rush toward Black militance. Clayborne Carson's portrait of the group in its transition from SNCC to what one member called the "Non-Student Violent Uncoordinating Committee" reads like a primer on political organizing, full of insight into both the sources of SNCC's strength and the seeds...