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...Cool World" smug, pretentious, and worst of all, full of both ignorance and insensitivity. It did a gross injustice to a first-rate film that movingly, and in my experience accurately, shows what it means for a Negro child to grow up (and go "wrong") in a slum...
While a movie is naturally more than a collection of clinical case histories, your reviewer has drawn upon his extensive knowledge of children faced with slum life to make sure we don't forget the clinical. The picture is said to tell of a world that "exists for sure only in ... (the director's) imagination." Moreover: "No doubt violence does rear up without warning in real Harlem life, but these scuffies come too fast in the movie to glean any human relevance." Precisely, and a cheer for Mr. Smock. At long last I can understand what really ails the slum...
Director Sidney Lumet brings the movie alive when his camera turns on Harlem's blighted streets, sopping up the juices of a slum that breeds thieves, spivs, prostitutes and all their prey. Then in flashbacks-some spliced subliminally into the narrative two or three frames at a time, others developed in excruciating detail-Lumet adroitly dramatizes the agony of memories. Sunning himself on a lawn in a bleak outpost of suburbia where he lives with relatives, Nazerman's mind melts back to an idyllic day in the old country with his wife and children. In a teeming subway...
...college administration. At Haverford, a letter to the college paper proposed that the college admit Negroes to fill 11 per cent of the incoming class, the national percentage, instead of the current one per cent. Writing to the Columbia Spectator one student decried the university's practice of purchasing slum buildings for the alleged purpose of "de-integrating" them...
...statement from the Massachusetts Freedom Movement hailed the March on Boston as long overdue. "Slum Housing and poor, segregated schools destroy thousands of people everyday. Massachusetts Freedom Movement calls upon its 14 affiliated units and all those who supported the two school stayouts to March on Boston," a spokesman said...