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...portrayed the relationship between the South's social code and Black children in the 30s and 40s. She writes very well, however, of the challenging intimacy between herself and her son, Guy. The rest of Maya's life pales in comparison to the poignancy of the mother-son bond. She ends up a loving and concerned mother but a boring social observer...
...leaders banter about their airplanes and cars, but personal wealth is no longer part of the ruling equation, at least as it was centuries ago. The strongest bond is the shared burden of governing. At one juncture of the SALT I negotiations in Moscow nine years ago, to prove how difficult were Nixon's domestic problems with the treaty, Brezhnev was shown a secret cable from U.S. generals protesting the proposed agreement. Brezhnev smiled, and then whispered that he could show American negotiators almost identical dispatches from his own obstinate military...
...plays an American ubermann, an Eagle-Scout of sorts obsessed by the boy's-book values of self-reliance and will power. He's an American hero of camaraderie who withholds himself from the weakening influence of women at the margin of his life for pure commitmentto the mystic bond of men in the wilds. Never defiled by desire, he stays aloof, ordered, and self-possessed, triumphant in his wiry celibacy. He's Hemingway's man, and he's that Dearslayer from James Fenimore Cooper. He's one of the real men you see at the hangout trying...
...Loved Me (Science Center): Sexist violence. You remember which Bond this one was--Barbara Bach, the Pyramids, Jaws--ah, you remember now. Here, let me ruin the beginning for you: he has a parachute...
...getting second-and third-generation students. Partly because the older private schools were the only places where students could get an advanced education, such colleges produced most of the black leaders in America. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, as did Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Novelist Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University, where ex-National Urban League President Vernon Jordan got his law degree. Historian W.E.B. Du Bois received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville...