Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLECTED ESSAYS, by Graham Greene. In retrospective notes and criticism, the prolific novelist provocatively drives home the same obsessive point: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 1968, by Theodore H. White. Whether following the poetic figure of Eugene McCarthy into the night or documenting Richard Nixon's electronic conquest of the nation, White is just as diligent as he was in his accounts of the two previous presidential races. However, his protagonist lacks the kind of flamboyance that fires up White's romantic mind, and as a result, a gray pall hangs over much of the book...
NONFICTION 1. The Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (1) 2. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (2) 3. The Making of the President '68, White (3) 4. Jennie, Martin (5) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (4) 6. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman (6) 7. Miss Craig's 21-Day Shape-Up Program for Men and Women, Craig (8) 8. The Money Game,'Adam Smith'(10) 9. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (7) 10. My Turn at Bat, Williams
Here in New York, the cover story was edited by Ron Kriss and written by Bob McCabe and John Shaw. They were able to draw on the reminiscences of Frank White, a former TIME Correspondent and now a Time Inc. executive. As a major in Hanoi at the end of World War II, White met Ho for a chat and a whisky three or four times a week, and gained many insights into the man's mystique. "When you interviewed him, he was always interviewing you," recalls White. "You got the impression that he had been isolated...
...black community. The big outbursts starting with Harlem, 1964, were riots of rising expectations, of frenzy at the gap between reality and the promise of the Civil Rights Acts. The riots showed blacks they were not impotent, but also that their best hopes resided in themselves, not in the white man's City Hall or in Washington. Explains Junius Williams, 25, black founder of the Newark Area Planning Association: "The rebellion kicked off something in a lot of people's minds. We've got power, they said, and let's do something about...