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...community activist in Dearborn, Mich., says he could not get a job at a local community college because, in the words of a college official: "You're not black, you're not white, and you don't speak Spanish." He complains that Arab Americans, contemptuously called "camel jockeys," are never given time off for Islamic holidays. Arab Americans are relatively small in number-between 1 million and 1.5 million -and they are dispersed in the nation and split by their disparate national and religious (both Christian and Moslem) origins. But Arab-American pride is asserting itself, especially...
What Antonioni gives is a distinctive and disorienting way of seeing. The Passenger has some of the boldest and most supple imagery that Antonioni has achieved in years - more memorable than anything in Blow -Up or the unfortunate Zabriskie Point. Images are charged with mystery: Locke greets a camel rider all hidden in robes and wearing dark glasses. The man moves by him, staring but not answering. He seems to signal death in his every aspect...
...never developed much taste for public affairs. His passions are falconry (he has one of the best collections of falcons in the world) and the desert life. In earlier years he liked nothing better than to visit tribes in the desert and engage them in a favorite Bedouin contest, camel-milk drinking; he won more often than not. He used to hunt big game in Africa and India, and decorated the walls of his palace in Riyadh with elephant tusks and tiger heads; he also founded a local zoo. But he curtailed many of his activities after undergoing open-heart...
NICHOLAS MINARD '76 died here Tuesday, an apparent suicide. In my thoughts I try to carry on with him much as before: I think about his disastrous encouragement of my Camel-cigarette chain smoking (he smoked Pall Malls as if they were about to be taken off the shelves); of the time we got thrown out of Cronin's for singing the Internationale too loud; of his clumsy but not ineffective basketball playing; and of the two books I have from him--one of which is the Essential Works of Socialism--both of which he constantly insisted he needed...
...fact that biblical critics pick and choose among the supernatural events they accept baffled the late Anglican novelist-critic C.S. Lewis. He wondered at the selective theology of the Christian exegete who, "after swallowing the camel of the Resurrection, strains at such gnats as the feeding of the multitudes." These critics would be apt to seek a naturalistic explanation for Jesus' multiplication of loaves and fishes?for instance, that he inspired the crowd to share food they had hidden for themselves...