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...Fred Warfield...
Public acts fall into several categories: 1) the tragic dullness of missed opportunity-for example, British and German general staffs were mired for years in the Western Front's stalemate of trench warfare; 2) the inconclusive-Wallace Warfield Simpson separated Edward VIII from his crown, but the event belonged more to the history of celebrity than to that of power; 3) magnificent failure-Imre Nagy, for example, in 1956 tried to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact and then discovered the brutal insistence of things in the Soviet tanks that arrived to iron out his impulse; 4) the satanic...
...When they turn loose African athletes who have been chasing, say, cheetahs, they will rewrite the record books. It's not because they're black but what they've been doing." Other athletes see explanations in the simple force of social pressure. In track, says Paul Warfield, the Cleveland Browns wide receiver, "I found just as many talented white performers with great speed or jumping ability as I did blacks. Yet in professional football, there seems to be an imbalance. For the white athlete, the alternatives have obviously been greater. He doesn't have to channel...
...Warfield's thoughts echo those of many sociologists, who note that sports -and entertainment-have traditionally been used by minorities to fight their way out of the ghettos and into the mainstream of American society. In their turn, Irish, Jewish and Italian athletes and entertainers fought, ran, sang and joked their way into a society previously closed to them. The same journey is now being undertaken by blacks. Ironically, the very success of black sports stars has served to focus aspirations in the black community on athletics, a trend that social scientists-as well as thoughtful black athletes-feel...
...combat. They package their own dead in black plastic bags for shipment back to the States. The men develop their own techniques for dealing with death. Cynical Deacon (Frank Adu) sells photos of the latest enemy kills as if they had been bagged on safari. Simple-minded Straw (Donald Warfield) tends the bodies with gentle piety. Others deal in raw humor or are narcotized by whores. The linchpin of the play is Micah (John Heard), a college boy for whom Nam, as they call it, is agonizing shorthand for the delayed initiation rite of manhood...