Word: yes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karenga, are still a neocolonial force in the ghetto. "They are not protecting us. They are controlling us." Karenga complains that the only function of Reddin's community councils is to release Negro frustrations through talk, without bringing effective action. Arthur Garcia, a Mexican-American spokesman, claims that only yes men sit on his community's councils. Felix Gutierrez, another Latin leader, notes that the L.A.P.D. still refuses to lower the height requirements so that Mexican-Americans, who tend to be shorter than other Angelenos, can join the force. (By contrast, New York has cut an inch off its previous...
STRATFORD, CONN.--Yes, Androcles and not Pericles. For the forty-seventh production in the history of the American Shakespeare Festival, the powers-that-be have for the fourth time gone outside the Shakespearean canon. The first departure, in 1963, was Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra; and this year we once again have Shaw. In between, the Festival gave us Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Anouilh's Antigone...
...appears to give much thought to revolt," writes François Nourissier in The French, which obviously went to press too soon. "Our young people are not brutal or rebellious or vicious or despairing or drugged or headed for extremist adventures. Indifferent? Yes. Nihilistic? No." Events since May seem to have proved Nourissier wrong, but curiously enough, they have in no way invalidated this splendidly instructive book. With affection and impeccable style, Novelist Nourissier (Une Histoire Française) shows his countrymen to be a gifted, cantankerous and immensely vital people, whose only predictable quality is their very unpredictability...
...blacks into separate roms, fired some shots into the ceiling, and returned to the motel residents left lined up in the hallway saying things like "that one didn't even kick." One of the other officers then asked August, "Do you want to kill one now?" August answered, "Yes," and, not being aware of the nature of the "game," took Aubury Pollard into one of the motel rooms and killed him with a shotgun blast at close range...
...Patrolman August say "Yes"? What destroyed the controls August had carefully built up? Was he just especially susceptible to the heady power granted by a gun and a badge, or would most whites react in the same fashion in a similar situation? Hersey has sacrificed his ability to suggest answers to these questions in order to write his documentary...