Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are aware of the Negro's plight and sympathetic to it theoretically, but in practice they wonder if the black is not demanding too much. They might not think of themselves as Procaccino's average men, but they are just as angry. Particularly they are angry at John Lindsay. One taxi driver, taking a passenger in from the airport, was cut off by an aquamarine Cadillac driven by a clean-cut, Ivy League type. "Damn it," the cabbie moaned, "they all look like Lindsay." A couple of college girls gathering signatures for Lindsay nominating petitions on a street corner...
...Locke remarked that "in the case of the American Negro, the sense of race is stronger than that of nationality." And yet, Locke pointed out, "some of the most characteristic American things are Negro or Negroid, derivatives of the folk life of this darker tenth of the population." Small wonder, then, that the greatest American Negroes feel torn at times...
...else you can convince us we need. The Sports Board is considered part of the News Board -and an important part. You can write mostly sports if you want to, you can write half sports. or you can write next to no sports. But, as Ben Beach, our boy wonder sports editor would say. "Sports is a groove." To repeat, the News Board Comp is Harvard's best introductory course to Harvard. (Consider the bright side: you'll be able to analyze and discuss with knowledge and precision exactly why you're miserable here...
...follow it, less ambitious in scope, are more successful. Probably the best of these later films is Valentin de las Sierras, made in Mexico. Rather than unify the film through a central protagonist's experience, Baillie portrays the world as a child sees it, conveying a clear sense of wonder through close-ups and impressionistic hand-held camera work. Shots with specific meanings reoccur in a variety of contexts, and characteristic Baillie imagery-a dark horse, an unlit entryway-rearranges itself according to a child-like vision...
FitzGibbon accepts as sound the plebiscites that gave Hitler up to 99% Ja. But if all Germans were guilty, he seems to wonder, why should countless individuals be singled out for punishment? If Eichmann, why not Everyman...