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...free-speech guarantee fades into the shouting-fire-in-a-crowded-theater category. But the court ducked the chance, choosing instead to dismiss Epton's appeal in an unsigned order. The order might be interpreted as meaning that such haranguing can very easily become criminal and that the Rap Browns can be prosecuted without constitutional objection. But it might not. For in cases involving concurrent sentences, the court has traditionally allowed all the convictions to stand if just one is deemed correct. In Epton's case, the court may simply have been satisfied with the conviction for conspiring...
...hardest rap is saved for the kiddies. They are fed one commercial every four minutes, or twice the adult rate. Says Adman Frederick Bruns: "The priceless thing is repetition. You've got to get to a kid three to five times a week to get him to act on a message." Video Boy acts by nagging his parents to get him a "Blasto-tank-with-twin-rocket -launchers -by -Slambang -Toys." Once he gets it, though, he is invariably disappointed because the toy is always much smaller and much less exciting than it looked on the overdramatized commercial. Thus...
Baker is stationed in Washington, but his mind wanders far beyond. After last summer's riots, he drove straight to the heart of the plot: Rap Brown was actually on the payroll of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Brown's job: to find "inexpensive solutions to the nation's racial problems." When trouble threatens, Rap is rushed to the spot to deliver inflammatory harangues. Then the Senate can blame the riots on "outside agitators" and avoid spending any money on the slums. A year ago, wrote Baker, a theater script had been rejected as too far-out because...
Johnson has fared worse than most. Black Power Apostle Stokely Carmichael calls him a "hunky," a "buffoon," and a "liar." Stokely's successor as head of the ill-named Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, H. Rap Brown, suggested that the President and Lady Bird ought to be shot. In The Accidental President, liberal Journalist Robert Sherrill described the President as "treacherous, dishonest, manic-aggressive, petty, spoiled." The outrageous play MacBird! called...
...intellectual content of Uncle T's monologues is often meager. His thoughts are not going to be passed on from generation to generation. But who cares? You don't want to listen to John Kenneth Galbraith rap between cuts of the Nashville Street Band playing "Baby Please Don't Go" and Richard Berry playing "Yamma Yamma Pretty Mamma...