Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main strength of the book is in its tying together of these white and black problems. Inserted between chapters on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, is a section on the white race and its heroes. "What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains." Youths "recoil in shame from the spectacle of cowboys and pioneers--their heroic forefathers whose exploits filled earlier generations with pride--galloping across a movie screen shooting down Indians like Coke bottles...
...recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual aristocrats." Now it is revered as a creation of "the laboring people...
Oriental Playmates? Both Streeter and Assistant Prosecutor Ronald Flanigan argued that two-year-old Scott would be more comfortable living in the colored South Park section of Port Huron instead of in the Damaschkes' white neighborhood. "There's a noticeable difference in color between your other children in the home and Scott, is there not?" Flanigan asked Damaschke's wife Joy, belaboring the obvious. Does the boy have any Negro, Indian or Oriental playmates? asked the prosecutor. Judge Streeter had a question for the social worker who testified for the Damaschkes. "Can't you foresee...
...Miranda. And they are under little pressure to change their ways. Last spring, reacting to the politics of "law and order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains a direct attack on Supreme Court doctrine. Never mind Miranda's strict rules in federal prosecutions, says one section of the law; now judges need only consider "all the circumstances" in which a confession was obtained be fore they rule on whether it was voluntary. That was, in effect, the formula before Miranda. When the first test case reaches the Supreme Court, the justices are likely to find...
Naturally, Marya Mannes, thinly disguised as a bright, sixtyish, musically inclined writer named Kate, winds up like that, in her family's year-round beach house. Along with her is an aging cross section of the New York cultural scene: a ham-fisted objective painter and his ex-model wife, a famous composer of Broadway show tunes, a celebrated ex-Viennese conductor...