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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.
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."
Privations at home and the horrendous loss of life on the front turned popular feeling against the war.