Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marion retreated into the kitchen to get her own dinner, Cleaver changed trousers and when he reappeared, described the reactions his pants had caused...
...Eldridge, this is my daughter Marion." Mr. Caball said ironically. "Marion this is Eldridge Cleaver...
...pleased to meet you," Marion said. She had peripherally noticed the aberration in Cleaver's pants without seeming to do so. There was a chill in her voice as these men surrounded her in a circle, mocking her slightly, and this big black man, the self-confessed white-girl rapist "on principle," with his penis slouching down between his legs, shook her hand. From that moment she was not fond of Eldridge Cleaver...
Marion returned and the conversation drifted to other subjects. Cleaver talked only briefly about his efforts to return to the United States. He said he has a request for a full pardon, exonerating him from skipping bail and leaving the country, before California's Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Asked why he wants to return to America, he answered, "Well, don't you want to go back?" Someone asked where he would settle, and Cleaver answered that he hadn't even given it thought, that he just wants the freedom to return but doubts he'd settle here...
...Cleaver obviously didn't want to talk about returning to the States. He was more willing to describe his life in Algeria. He said the period was most difficult when Dr. Timothy Leary visited...