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According to James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones, Malcolm X and any number of other writers and seers, the U.S. Negro is consumed with hatred of whites and is on the verge of doing some foul and desperate deed. Negro Writer Ralph Ellison's coolly reasoned essays are a timely rebuttal of this extravagant thesis. In clean, brisk, unapocalyptic prose, Ellison denies that "unrelieved suffering is the only 'real' Negro experience, and that the true Negro writer must be ferocious. . . . What an easy con-game for ambitious, publicity-hungry Negroes this stance of 'militancy' has become...
...Mentone (pop. 50) was once suggested as the ideal place to get an impartial jury for Jack Ruby. Just how miserable that move would have made Loving was made clear in a rare order just handed down by State District Judge J. H. Starley. Confronted with a troublesome property deed case in Mentone, Judge Starley counted up Loving's grand total of 80 qualified jurors and banished the case to another county on the unusual ground that he could not possibly muster a Loving jury "without completely closing down the economic life of the county...
Nothing Sacred. The attraction evil had for Malaparte gave him peculiar insight into the behavior of men who were far worse in deed than he ever was in thought. In Kaputt, he wrote: "The Nazi has no fear of the strong man, of the armed man who faces him with courage. The Nazi fears the defenseless, the weak and the sick...
...assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald is also depicted ineptly. The spectator is plunged into the episode without warning of what is about to happen, and the deed is done so swiftly that the eye can scarcely follow it. Yet the moviemakers do not even bother to repeat in slow motion a scene that is surely one of the most exciting and significant stretches of live action ever shown on a screen...
...Harvey Oswald lived for only one thing: to commit a deed which by its very nature would place him far above the ordinary man. He gained questionable immortality last Nov. 22, and TIME compounds the dastardly act by using his repulsive likeness on its cover...