Word: vilely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spread, Superintendent Orlando Wilson built his force from 200 men the first night to 900 the third. The mobs generally retained the initiative as police dashed confusedly back and forth over the battleground to meet each new challenge. At times, the cops displayed admirable coolness in the face of vile curses and the bruising missiles of street warfare; at others, they matched the rioters in reckless violence with club and gun. Once, after losing a sniper in the dark, a squad of infuriated cops turned on some Negro bystanders, caught one unarmed boy of about twelve and beat him. Negro...
...Vile Appetites. The place with the wildest reputation is Ocean City, which was founded by Methodist clergymen in the late 19th century as "a moral seaside resort which must be run in the interests of our holy Christianity." Ocean City still bans alcoholic beverages ("We cannot pander to vile appetites or propensities"), but just two miles across the causeway is Somers Point-and it has 18 bars. After sunning all day at Ocean City and partying all night at Somers Point, the conclusion is frequently sexual. Says Ann Williams, a 23-year-old medical technician: "The kids think nothing...
...also black and bloody Kali, the bringer of death and destruction. The West divides good and evil, and thinks evil can be destroyed-St. George killing the dragon, the Virgin crushing the serpent beneath her heel. The Hindus revere the serpent as the symbol of all nature, good and vile together. Asians generally are capable of believing that something is simultaneously good and bad, right and wrong, black and white-in a manner that drives the Western, Aristotelian, either-or mentality to distraction...
...wish, to bring white culture to the black man, but to allow the black man to express himself within his own culture. So Jones's plays speak in "language of the gutter." Is not Harlem just one giant gutter? What language should he use? And he writes "vile racist plays." Is not Harlem life centered around vile racism? Should Jones write Broadway musicals...
...says. "Maybe we should have started one program at a time. But there was great need." Among other blunders for which he was blamed was a $40,000 grant last summer to Playwright LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem to produce, as Shriver later admitted, "vile racist plays in language of the gutter...