Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clotel was the first Afro-American novel in which what we may call the "American contradiction" was first expressed through a literary character. More importantly, in this novel we saw the grandiloquent gesture vs. the monumental emptiness of America's action. Yet one had to wait until the end of the century to see this question posed in fuller novelistic terms. For it was in his work The Marrow of Tradition that Charles Chestnutt suggested that ingrained racism--that man-hating ideology which lay at the very vital of the national character--was poisoning the nature of national life...
Virtually all black organizations and leaders that are carrying on the struggle against apartheid in South Africa call for U.S. corporate withdrawal. This is the official position of the Black People's Convention, the South African Students Organizations, the African National Congress, the Pan-African Congress, the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and the Christian Institute in South Africa...
...which there are few ways of preventing the escalation of violence and bloodshed into a major confrontation. One of the few remaining methods of working peacefully is through economic pressure, which could help to motivate the changes needed to bring justice and peace...The Christian Institute supports the call for no further investment in South Africa because...
...director will never change a call," Vastola says. "If you argue coolly, and sparingly, he may say to himself, 'maybe I did make a mistake.' Psychologically, he may give you a touch. If you bark at him too loudly and too often, that'll only harden his resolve to screw...
Dubin is ultimately a coward--one more sympathetic to his plight (and nearer his age) might call him very human?--but in the end the book is wearing. He obviously sees himself as likable (as does Malamud), but it becomes harder and harder to understand why. The problem is that the book becomes too much like Dubin--one of those people who draw you into their lives with the message, "I can change, I want to change, all I need is for you to believe in me, love me and I will change." And it ends with Dubin sneaking...