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...government. He may even be right when he says that modern man is "surely crazier than we realize." But he undercuts his own arguments by his hysterically hectoring tone. Christians, he writes, "made all the world a hell." He testifies he has seen scientists at work who are "corrupt, mindless, ignorant." In the end, his book induces only the normal long-sermon doze and the final dogged agreement that, yes, we're not as good as we should...
Nothing has angered the community more than the condescension of white professionals or their attempts to impose solutions on Roxbury's problems. The anger is not mindless. It stems from a fervent conviction that white, suburban intellectuals can't change the ghetto if they haven't lived it. "The community people," says James R. Reed, Executive Secretary of the New School for Children, almost pleading, "would be the last people in the world to tell the professionals 'we don't need you.' The problem starts when he ignores the kind of competence we have...they have got to believe...
Like so many rock troubadours, S. & G. see pain in the affluent society-in alienation, lack of communication, insincerity, mindless cocktail-hour chatter-but they succeed with these tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays...
...networks had put togather well-balanced footage of the event, most notably film showing fires and looting in Washington and New York City. It was much like the 1967 summer :Negroes shouldering into shops, helping themselves as if it were a free day at Macy's. Mindless, smiling, they carried their booty through the streets- here a woman struggling with a huge arm chair, there a man with several suits over his arm, there another man lugging not one but two television sets the better, no doubt, to watch the later looting in the comfort of his own living...
Somewhere in a procession of singularly mindless Oscars, the Academy saw fit to honor a great lady of stage and screen, Katharine Hepburn. Miss Hepburn, who had won her last award more than 30 years ago, was named best actress for her appearance in another tale of love between the races, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...