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...overthrown Big Boy almost invariably expired along with his power. Now, in the era of telephone and television (to keep track of how close the other side is coming) and the helicopter and jet (for rapid extraction when the front door gives way), there is building an exclusive international brotherhood of exiled Big Boys with leftover lives to kill...
...better choice perhaps would be the Dry Tortugas, just below the Florida Keys. Once a haven for pirates, an old prison island surrounded by shipwrecks, by sharks and barracuda and stingrays and poisonous fantasies of treasure, the place shimmers with the right sunny-sinister atmospherics for the brotherhood...
...central theme for the trip. After his plane touched down in New Delhi on Feb. 1, he quickly set the tone for his visit. "I can assure you," he said, "that the church is always desirous of offering her loyal and generous contribution to the unity and brotherhood of the nation." Only government officials, church leaders, reporters and security men heard the speech, since ordinary citizens were barred from the welcoming ceremony...
...theme of brotherhood gives this book its direction, it is because that same idea has guided Baldwin's own life. In his writing and in his life he perceives that man pays a deadly price whenever he seeks to dominate another because the other invariably rises up to destroy his oppresser. The oppresser can never hope for a moment's peace. His enemies are constantly behind his back, waiting for an opportune moment to grasp at the tyrant's throat. Baldwin makes it his self-appointed mission to convince people, Black and White, that the price of class antagonism...
Having exorcised these ghosts, Baldwin has gone on to a remarkable career of activism, not encouraging riots and the use of force but rather education and constant reminders of the brotherhood of man. Included in this collection are his three book length essays--"The Fire Next Time," "No Name In The Street" and "The Devil Finds Work"--which serve as poetic manifestos of his theory. In his essay on Alex Haley's Roots, Baldwin delineates his attitude towards activism: "Each of us, however unconsciously, can't but be the vehicle of the history which has produced us. Well...