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A little pun in his Nobel lecture appears to gloss over, and even celebrate, the privations of underdevelopment: "In the Antilles poverty is poetry with a 'v,' une vie , a condition of life as well as of imagination."
Branch's most powerful scenes are his unflinching descriptions of the horrors endured by hundreds of activists, from the "medieval privations of ," to barbaric beatings by , to the arson and murder committed by . When TV cameras covered events like these, the nation was riveted, but often these individual sacrifices went unnoticed by reporters swooning over King.
Privations at home and the horrendous loss of life on the front turned popular feeling against the war.