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HOME: SOCIAL ESSAYS by LeRoi Jones. 252 pages. Morrow...
...than 1% of those eligible voted, bringing the cost per ballot cast to $22.94. Shriver also conceded that programs in some cities had been delayed because of failure to reach agreement with local officials or plain bad judgement. In Harlem, the OEO spent $40,000 to enable Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones to stage what Shriver described-mildly-as "vile racist plays in vile gutter language unfit for the youngsters in the audience...
Position Is Important. There, beneath layers of clay and stones, were the unmistakable traces of a dwelling built by man on the shores of the Mediterranean 200,000 years ago. "It is certainly the oldest organized human dwelling yet dug up," says Sorbonne Prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan. France's fore most authority on paleontology, Profes sor Jean Piveteau, is equally emphatic. "It appears to show that prehistoric man already had a certain social organization 200,000 years ago." Before the Nice discovery, the oldest known man-made dwelling, dating from around 150,000 years ago, was unearthed in southern...
...SYSTEM OF DANTE'S HELL by LeRoi Jones. 154 pages. Grove Press...
...LeRoi Jones has a beard, a gigantic grievance collection, and a notion that he is the Jonathan Swift of the Ne gro revolution. But Swift's excremental visions were elaborated by his intellect; Jones's explosive expressions proceed from a simpler impulse. In The Toilet, his most effective play, the action transpires in a latrine. And in this book, described on the dust jacket as an autobiography, he announces aggressively: "This thing, if you read it, will jam your face in my -." It will indeed. On almost every page, Author Jones, who is now 31 years old, makes...