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...gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe the brief rumor that they were demanding custody of Angela Davis. The $500,000 ransom seemed almost a relief-as did a quiet and temporarily successful $200,000 holdup of a United jet in Reno. Today the most frequently-and falsely-coupled words are "senseless" and "violence." But violence is never senseless to the person who commits it. The absurdity...
...grader nominated India's Indira Gandhi because "she has done more for the welfare of her people than any other leader before her." Several opted for Brooklyn's Shirley Chisholm ("she has helped history by running, or trying to run, for President"), and a fourth-grader picked Angela Davis "because she has affected us so much...
...Angela Davis, avowed Communist and former instructor in philosophy at U.C.L.A., an integral part of the wild and bloody struggle to rescue the Soledad Brothers...
...women who capture the public imagination today? Angela Davis? Germaine Greer? Shirley Chisholm? Each of them does command unusual attention, but none of them more than two long-dead ladies: Elizabeth I, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603, and Mary, Queen of Scots, her contemporary and bitter rival. Their sudden popularity is a turn of the popular psyche that befuddles the critics, but, in this day of so-called new politics, Elizabeth and Mary's Old World politics remain as fascinating as ever. Four centuries old, history's most famous catfight still reverberates passionately, and every entertainment...
...short story Monte Sant' Angela, Arthur Miller writes of the Jewish experience: "The whole history is packing bundles and getting away." That may have been. Now the business, Jews hope, is unpacking bundles and settling where they are. They seem determined to follow the 614th commandment