![]() ![]() ![]() He and Gertrude had four children, one of whom had been, he said, hit hard by the 1960s. As a young man he had been an extra in John Ford’s Fort Apache. ![]() He had retired from the Rockefeller Foundation and come to Jogjakarta to teach political science at Gadjah Mada. Richards,” I remember a student asking me that morning. “What think?” Joe Black was then in his fifties, Gertrude a year or two younger but again, I suppose in her fifties. The Blacks had shown up in a classroom one morning at Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta an American couple apparently at home in the remote and in many ways alien tropic of central Java, their faces open and strikingly luminous. “The critical theories of Mr. We were there on a USIA trip, giving lectures and meeting Indonesian writers and academics. What he meant was something that had to do with Joe and Gertrude Black, a couple we had met in Indonesia in December 1980. ![]()
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