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...pervasive fog of drugs is the dark side of the Dead Heads' exceptional amiability. There is no thuggery here, as there can be in other rock crowds, no feeling of physical menace. Dead Heads cherish stories of Dead niceness. Kathleen from New Hampshire says that last fall at Augusta, Me., she was stopped at the door when someone sold her a counterfeit Dead ticket. She was sitting outside the hall, crying, when a stranger came up and gave her a real ticket, and a rose. But drug burnout is a problem among these nice people. Keep your ears open just...
Taylor's people realize that their behavior is circumscribed by customs, often the very ones they cherish most and work hardest to preserve. They also sense that they should not be too content with their restrictions; they want to understand more than their experience allows. In Promise of Rain, a father recognizes the moment when his youngest son, almost grown and increasingly remote, finds the path his life will follow: "I was 50, but I had just discovered what it means to see the world through another man's eyes. It is a discovery you are lucky to make...
...evident that this question should be rephrased as. How can they make themselves into first-class citizens?" Now any serious student of American racist patterns and Afro-American life could tell Mansfield that Blacks have never lacked the will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much--or the institutional knowledge required to become citizens at parity with American citizenship standards, and it is insulting and just plain ignorant of Mansfield to suggest otherwise What Black Americans have tacked in their tortuous citizenship quest is the freedom to pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist...
Americans tend to cherish the idea that a presidential campaign should be a dramatic examination of the nation's values and goals. Some such differentiation did occur, especially at the two conventions. In San Francisco, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson elaborated the Mondale theme of Democratic inclusiveness and Government as the agent of progress. In Dallas, the Republicans ridiculed that as a negative, weakling vision. To them, the private sector is America's genius...
Together with their language and literature, the Sikhs cherish their religious customs and institutions. A newcomer is initiated by being anointed with sweet water that has been stirred in an iron bowl with a double-edged dagger. Sikhs pray together on equal footing in gurdwaras, or temples, through which reverberate chanted verses from the sacred book known as the Granth Sahib. The holiest of holies is the Golden Temple at Amritsar, some 250 miles northwest of Delhi, the shrine that was stormed by government troops five months ago. Rejecting all idols as false, the Sikh (the name means disciple) draws...