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...satellites. Farrakhan banged on the American mind with a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom: Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. He went on about obelisks and the intricate, unintelligible meanings of mystical, pseudo-Pharaonic numerologies. He sounded by turns menacing and Rotarian: a salesman in a sharp bow tie, the hallucination of Mussolini channeling Booker T. Washington. Behind him postured his son from the Fruit of Islam, in sunglasses and paramilitary Graustark...
...respected member of their once formidable but now rapidly shrinking Southern delegation. Saying he lacks the "zest and enthusiasm" for a fifth term, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia announced he would step down at the end of next year--the eighth Senate Democrat to call it quits and bow out of next year's elections...
...messages. In a TIME/CNN poll of 400 African Americans last week, 33% said they regarded him as a "positive force," and only 16% saw him as negative; the rest weren't sure. He enjoys a hard-won legitimacy among otherwise disaffected young men in the inner cities, where his bow-tied adherents are aggressively visible. The Rev. James Demus, pastor of the Park Manor Christian Church on Chicago's South Side, joined Chicago's Million Man March steering committee. Says he of Farrakhan's followers: "I admire their work in cleaning up drugs; I admire their sense of cleanliness...
...said. "I am surprised." Then he added that he had confidence in the jurors. "This," said Cochran, "has been a very good jury." He shook off the crowd and, flanked by several airport policemen and two bodyguards, at least one of them with the shaved head, suit and bow tie of a member of the Nation of Islam, ducked into a waiting black limousine, its windows darkened against the lights of Los Angeles...
...that matter, of Dante or of T.S. Eliot--are free to disagree with his beliefs or the lack thereof. What no one can deny is the power of the words he has found to bridge the disjunctions of his life and faith. As he wrote in "The Harvest Bow," "The end of art is peace...