Word: vanguards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEARCH OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE by A. D. Wraight and Virginia Stern. 376 pages. Vanguard. $12.50. A pictorial investigation of the one Elizabethan poet who could hold a candle to Shakespeare and who was a trouble-maker as well. Marlowe's route is traced through contemporary prints and present-day photos of his haunts. In trouble with the Star Chamber because of his vocal atheism, Marlowe was killed in a drunken brawl at Deptford, just as the law was closing in. The murder had so many loose ends that historians still wonder...
...heart of the problem, for it leaves behind the lower-income, semiliterate Negroes, notably the families that are below the Government's $3,000-a-year poverty line. This class contains 60% of all the nation's Negro youths, the very people who are in the vanguard of desire and disorder. While the income of the middle-class Negro rises, that of this great mass of Negroes is actually declining. During the 1960s, median family income for Negroes has dropped from $3,897 to $3,803 in Los Angeles' Watts, from...
...HOUSE IN ORDER by Nigel Dennis. 188 pages. Vanguard...
...Chiang Kai-shek's superior Kuomintang forces drove the Reds out of populous South China, and thus began the legendary Long March-a year-long hegira of some 7,000 miles over seven mountain ranges to the remote fastness of Shensi province in the northwest. Lin commanded the vanguard of the 90,000 Red marchers, forging ahead personally on donkeyback in search of edible herbs and grasses. Riddled with illness and strafed by Kuomintang aircraft, Lin's van still managed to break through the ranks of the "six-legged enemy" (Chiang's cavalry) when the Long Marchers...
...South Side bands. Some blues buffs .are beginning to worry that the art, increasingly cut off from its country roots and diluted by white encroachments, will grow moribund. But the jumping Chicago scene today assures the vitality of the blues for a long time to come. A new vanguard of city-bred youths is already cropping up in the lesser-known bands and outlying clubs, catching the beat, learning the notes, taking up again the ancient, universal plaint...