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This is in fact what most Establishment politicians and media seck from the ecology issue. Worried by the dangers of the heated anti-war fervor among many students, bothered by the growth of an anti-Establishment consciousness, fearful of the potentialforce of a growing opposition to racism, these men in power are seeking to use the ecology issue to bring radicals under their leadership once more...
...some 15 companies in Chicago's heavily black South Side into opening up 5,000 new jobs for blacks in the past four years. At 28, he effectively bridges the widening gulf between the young activists and the old-style moralistic preachers. His strength is his use of evangelistic fervor to achieve pragmatic ends. "You can be an orator or an organizer," he insists. "I am an organizer." Actually, he is a blend of both, and sometimes describes his occupation as that of a "moral engineer...
...Czechoslovak people have resorted to passive resistance to the point where their slowdowns in factories and on farms are endangering the entire economy. Only recently, for example, the government proclaimed four Saturdays as wageless extra workdays because of "serious economic shortcomings." The Czechoslovaks did not exactly respond with patriotic fervor. As an industrial worker in Prague commented: "So now we will loaf on four additional working days...
While Cleavon Little brings a rip-roaring fervor to Purlie's evangelistic soliloquies, the cute cutup who steals the show, the evening and the audience's heart is the back-country girl (Melba Moore) who falls in love with Purlie. Melba Moore is a delightfully innocent minx, a girl who seems to have swallowed joy for breakfast. When she sings, the sun shines in, and when she dances, her feet play truant from the earth...
When liberals chide him for joining a conservative Republican Administration, he retorts that too many of them have lost their way in contemporary America. They have, he believes, substituted moral fervor for political analysis. Many have "a frenzied attachment to the apocalypse," he says. "They see society in ahistorical terms: what is not altogether acceptable is altogether unacceptable; gradations are ignored and incremental movements are scorned." Many contemporary liberals, he says, have become arrogant and isolated from the rest of society because of their affluence. Today's liberal is "a well-educated middle-class person with an immense feeling...