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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real experience, wrote a children's book this year--Dead End School--depicting the difficulties faced by two ghetto boys when they are thrust into a desegregation effort. The boys, Larry and Jim, are modeled after two boys Coles got to know in Roxbury. The story gives Jim's view of his own experience in the bussing crisis. Larry peripherally presents a black militant reaction to that same experience...
...meant this book to reach middle-class white children. I wasn't really trying to describe Negro children or their view of the world. I wanted to describe through the activities of children how some of these confusing social and political events occur, what gets them going, how ambiguous and tentative and accidental a lot of them...
...real challenge that I failed to make in writing that book was the challenge of writing it from the point of view of Larry rather than Jim, of conveying Larry's life to middle-class children--Larry being the boy who came from a much more disorganized home, really a black militant. But it's difficult anyway to communicate these lives to other lives that are so different, and so I chose the easier way out, I chose the black boy who is more like white middle-class boys...
...Epps very successfully, through the use of Shakespeare, brings home some of the tragedy in which Malcolm found himself trapped at the end of his life. The article is hard going; that is inherent in the Shakespeare, not in Epps' use of it. His view helps one see more deeply into a profound figure...
From a technical point of view, last year's Ken Wallis-built car was far more revolutionary than this year's Lotus turbines. It employed a totally new chassis configuration, with the driver and engine positioned next to one another in the center of the vehicle. Chapman borrowed the four-wheel drive train from last year's car, but reverted to a conventional rear engine chassis layout...