Word: frantz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even earlier bird, John R. Frantz '76 said he arrived around 7:45 a.m. Monday to stand in line and that there were only about ten people in front of him. When asked why he was there so early, Frantz replied, "It's a job, it's your life...
...kind of knowledge needed by blacks is more than the mesmerizing rhetoric and the myopic prognosis of the para-intellectuals and self-acclaimed theoreticians of the past decade. We can no longer afford to transform profound political theorists--from Karl Marx to W.E.B. Du Bois to Frantz Fanon--into mythical characters, while turning their complex theories into catechistic blueprints for passionate action. Blacks need the kind of knowledge that flows from the subtle rationality of seriously committed intellectuals who have the enhancement of blacks foremost on their minds. We need the type of theoretical analysis that bases itself...
...FRANTZ FANON...
...Frantz Fanon was born an outsider. He lived on the cusp of history, ground between implacable opposites. A black man from Martinique, Fanon grew up in the intensely French and white-oriented prewar culture of that island. Making it there, he went to France to train as a psychiatrist with whites as his patients. Then, in 1953, he moved to Algeria to direct a mental hospital crowded with North African Moslems...
Bertucelli begins with an excerpt from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. It makes the not very unique observation that bourgeois influence does not vanish when the bourgeoisie depart. Fortunately Bertucelli then propels language into gesture and diurnal life into dramatic text. Ramparts of Clay has but one vital incident. A company official travels a great distance to pay the quarriers of the village. The wages are arbitrarily halved; the men go on a sit-down strike. Soldiers are called in, ringing the strikers who cannot join their families a few hundred yards away. Food is denied...