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There are some who read this voluntarily segregationist spirit as an expression of the Negro's desire to separate from the society that segregates him. This same theory holds that Black Power is a self-destructive force, a prisoner of its own wrath, a rebellion that is against everything and for nothing. According to this interpretation, the Black Power movement has retired the civil rights movement, which from the beginning depended heavily on white strategy and leadership...
Tumbling Taboos. What appealed most to Crowther were movies of social content. Looking back at all those films, he nominates as his alltime favorites Citizen Kane, Grapes of Wrath and Gone With the Wind-all of them big movies with big messages. His criticism, however was not confined to movies alone. In the 1950s, he fought against the blacklisting of supposed Hollywood Communists and ridiculed some of the stridently patriotic, anti-Communist movies that were being brought out at that time. He was just as opposed to censorship movements, and has done his bit to bring the taboos tumbling down...
...WORLD) which has put Axel Springer, 55, to the right of center. When the coalition government was formed last winter, the far left was out in the cold with nowhere to go. As its frustrations deepened, so did its militancy. One of the principal targets of its wrath, exaggerated far beyond its threat, is Springer...
...hippies, think tanks and computerized leisure-a number of anachronisms. From the fall of 1965 until late last year, the vast and verdant San Joaquin Valley was the scene of a farm workers' strike that, in its stark simplicity, seemed to re-trample Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. At issue were no such modern matters as automation and a guaranteed annual wage but merely the right of California's 500,000 fieldworkers, predominantly Mexican-Americans, to unionize...
...Mexican-American workers had been suffering. Anglo growers maintained that the workers had never had it so good. Both sides were partially right, but when the strikers began firing 4,000 marbles from slingshots and growers started dusting the picket lines with insecticides, right had clearly given way to wrath...