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...like Pettigrew's class on Race Relations. I returned my thinking to 1962 and wrote as I thought Martin Luther King would have because I knew that that was what Pettigrew wanted. For most of the Afro-American courses I have taken I assumed the rhetorical style of H. Rap Brown...
Arriving at Loyola University in Chicago for a "rap session," the silver-haired Democrat found that his audience had been lured away by a campus goldfish-swallowing contest. "The student chairman was very apologetic," says Pucinski, "and we went to the contest to announce that I was there." Upon his appearance, the students began chanting, "Eat a fish! Eat a fish!" Never one to ignore an opening, Pooch downed one of the little wrigglers. "A goldfish is sort of like a martini," said Pucinski later, swallowing hard. "After the first one, they're not bad. Once...
...sinister drama, the Mafia's bloodletting accounts for only an insignificant fraction of the killings that occur every year in the U.S. The rising toll sometimes seems to validate H. Rap Brown's mordant dictum: "Violence is as American as cherry pie." In 1970 there were 16,000 criminal homicides in the nation-one every 33 minutes. With the carnage mounting-up 8% from the previous year and 76% over the decade-the U.S. is maintaining its long-held, unhappy distinction of leading advanced Western nations in the rate at which its citizens destroy one another. Philadelphia...
...union leaders walked out because "most don't want to take the rap for wage restraints," Gould added...
...this purposeful activity, the heart of the Women's Liberation movement consists of small groups of women meeting informally to discuss shared problems. Consciousness-raising or rap groups are the recruiting ground of the movement. Says Chicago Feminist Jo Freeman: "The rap group is what the factory was for the workers, the church for the Southern civil rights movement and the campus for the student." Most of the groups are formed, meet for a while and are disbanded, with no one outside the principals-not even organized feminist groups -aware of their existence. Yet it is in the catharsis...