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...Blacks, each of which builds to its own frightening realization. There is the world of their stage; an uninvolved white court watches Village reenact the rape and murder of a white woman, played rather reluctantly by a blond-bewigged Diouf. On our stage, the black-black-actors judge and condemn the white-black-actors and march them into hell. In the world of the theatre as a whole, we the predominantly white audience begin to perceive the actors as a unified group manipulating us with savage skill. And then there is the reality beyond the theatre, whose messenger is Newport...
...black admissions are down in some schools, most of Harvard's small number of female teachers perch tenuously on the lower rungs of the ladder, and blacks still comprise less than two per cent of the tenured faculty. Not impressive, assuredly, and one possible reaction would be to condemn all attempts to improve the situation. Just as plausible, however, would be to condemn the situation itself...
...Shades of Richard Nixon in 1968 promising to fire Attorney General Ramsey Clark.) The attacks on Kissinger are not doing much good for Reagan, or Scoop Jackson either. Still, after suffering through one of his rougher weeks, the Secretary of State took the offensive against those presidential candidates who condemn U.S. foreign policy. Speaking to the Boston World Affairs Council,* he accused them of being vague and inconsistent...
...Cornell Medical Schools in planning a new medical center in Iran is the right decision made for the wrong reason. The faculty made clear at its meeting that it does not want to be responsible for a project whose policies it could not determine, but it failed to condemn Iran's outright police state...
Robeson's longstanding and ardent support of the Soviet Union, even during the outrages of the Stalinist period, show a tragic blindness to the true nature of the Soviet system, and perhaps a real lack of political sophistication. But to use this element in his career to condemn either Robeson the man, or Robeson the symbol, is misleading and wrong. Robeson the man was defined by boundless compassion: for war refugees, for his oppressed black brothers, and in a real sense, for all who suffered in an uncaring world. And Robeson the symbol represented, not the Communist Party...