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After taking office as the first Negro mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland's Carl Stokes disappointed even his most loyal supporters. His first five months produced little but petty errors, squabbles and a deepening frustration that so vibrant a campaigner could be so dull an incumbent. Then came Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, and Stokes, 40, tearfully walked through Cleveland slums, trying to avert the violence that was to inflame 168 other American cities. He succeeded, and that April night seemed to bring the mayor to rousing life...
...their theses postponed, I was up all night typing an overdue anthropology paper. While they were getting money from Daddy, I was hurrying to my Saturday job. While they were uncommitted to a future career, I was unsuccessfully seeking a full-time job. Isn't all this responsibility dull...
...attention to it, paying homage to the world, preserving it, transfiguring it, declaring it all worth saving. One can quote at random from his novel, for every page has gems of observation, rhythmic and charming passages of prose. Only the transcribed stream-of-consciousness of Piet is ever dull or banal...
When I arrived in Marks a few days after the trial, Mrs. Collins dragged me along to a house around the corner, a dull grey frame woodshed. The one-room shed had been built by Presley Franklin's father and a few other people caught up in the "Movement," the atrophied remainder of the county's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the party that had elected black representatives from all over the state in 1964 and sent them to Atlantic City to challenge the all-white official delegation. The hut was to hold the weekly citizenship classes. It was built...
...dash, never smiles when she can give shiny-eyed grins that reduce her to a caricature coquette. Amateurish cutting and arbitrary shifts from color to black and white mutilate the film. Moreover, the dubbing is disastrous: the actors' faces show feelings far more profound than the dull words that cannot quite fit their mouths...