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Slightly stooped, bald, armed with a cane, the granitic old man still gets up early every morning for an hour of prayer and meditation. At his age, any man would have much to reflect on. He has more than most. Perhaps he remembers the wartime meetings with Roosevelt and Churchill, the great victories and the shattering defeats. Perhaps he also recalls one of his favorite lines from the Confucian scholar Mencius, which he used to quote to his aides: "If, on self-examination, I find that I am upright, I will go forward against thousands and tens of thousands...
...Leaving the road behind, I entered a strange world where water is seasonal king and the only transport is a large, cane-covered canoe known as the country boat. For seven hours we plied deeper into Gopalganj subdivision in southern Faridpur district. The two wiry oarsmen found their way by taking note of such landmarks as a forlornly decaying maharajah's palace and giant butterfly nets hovering like outsized flamingos on stilt legs at water's edge...
...East St. Louis, in rural Louisiana, and in the CCC camps during the Depression--his dreams, despite all his efforts to realize them, had been almost universally deferred. Often in the years before leaving Chicago, he might well have felt like Robert, the character in Jean Toomer's Cane, whose head was sealed inside a diving helmet so monstrous as to plummet him irrespressibly into the crushing depths of an ocean's clammy inferno. Doomed if he were to remove his monstrous mask and doomed if he did not, Robert Jackson could perhaps have done no more than...
...minute speech. "They are representatives of the North American people, not their government. No one should compare their trip here with Yankee imperialism." Meanwhile the U.S. volleyball team, in Cuba for a series of warmup games for the 1972 Olympics, was getting a glimpse of life behind the Sugar Cane Curtain. One bit of information gleaned from the Cubans by Team Physician Dr. Robert Pike was the reason Castro's speeches are so long. "They told me that Castro realizes he is trying to reach people, many of whom cannot read or write," Pike said. "The only...
...chariots -Cadillacs, Lincolns, Chryslers-here on earth instead of going to heaven." As "Dominion Ruler" of his Detroit-based Church of the Universal Triumph, Jones willingly accepted gifts from his black congregation. At his peak in the 1950s, Jones' inventory included a 54-room mansion, a gold-handled cane, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, a $12,900 white mink coat and several limousines...