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...butchers illustrate diverging white explanations of what lies behind the pervasive fear of black crime in Dorchester-Mattapan. Nathan Epstein thinks Supreme Court decisions have made policemen powerless. "Blame the fact that they changed our Constitution," he says. "At one time, if anyone would do something wrong, he would be punished. It isn't a question of the blacks. The police can't do anything." His colleague, Joseph Schaer, objects heatedly: "They gave you 45 stitches. They took my pants, for Christ's sake. It's a good thing they didn't murder...
...proving grounds not only for Moses Gunn but for James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) and Diana Sands (The Owl and the Pussycat"), as well as for Gloria Foster, Clarence Williams III, Cicely Tyson, Barbara Ann Teer, Rosalind Cash, Lou Gossett, Vinie Burrows, Yaphet Kotto, Hattie Winston, Nathan George, Roscoe Lee Browne and many more. Simultaneously, a band of black playwrights got their first chance to render and explore black experience to increasingly black audiences. In a sense, it has been a drama of exorcism, a casting out of white devils from black minds. LeRoi Jones' Dutchman...
...both Saltonstall and Sullivan, by shaking their heads and swearing disbelief and disappointment, are making Harvard and its president, Nathan M. Pusey, look like a prophet. Such is hardly the case...
When Moynihan returned to New York, he simultaneously began to contribute articles to Manhattan journals and to get involved in politics. "In the Jewish culture," says Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer, "you get out of poverty by going to college and becoming a lawyer or an intellectual. In the Irish culture, you get out by going into politics. Pat did both. He links the Jewish intelligentsia and the world of politics." On the intellectual side, he collaborated with Glazer in writing Beyond the Melting Pot (1963), a groundbreaking study that pointed out how strongly America's various ethnic groups have...
...Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, who was the scheduled moderator, entered the room two hours late. "There was not an adequate work incentive for you to come," Wiley quipped...