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Twenty years ago Cruse was there to criticize Black thinkers for holding to a dictum that every Jewish opinion was a good one. What the Black community needs now is a thinker of Cruse's force to confront Black intellectuals, and here Cruse is included, for holding to a new and equally blinding axiom: no Jewish opinion is a good...
...plays with his words to create a state of intellectual torment in his readers to make them confront his country's predicament. His artistry lies not in an ability to write pleasant fiction, but in his powerful ability to use an inherited form in novel ways. Angelo's book offers no repose to its readers, no chance to lapse into a happy understanding with the text. One can only laugh and skim through the pages, as the narrator does at times, or wrestle with the book...
Similar but less explosive problems confront Venezuela (foreign debt: about $35 billion). Originally, the country expected $12.4 billion in oil revenues this year. Now experts estimate the total at slightly more than $10 billion, and that may be optimistic. Late last week Venezuela announced that it was cutting some oil prices by $3 per bbl. Venezuela began imposing austerity measures in 1984, and these have led to an unemployment rate of 13.3%. The current administration has risked a public backlash by hiking the prices of such basic commodities as bread, milk and gasoline...
These cautionary tales confront wide-eyed readers of the new book Girls, Be Vigilant!, an official publication of the Chinese government. The usually puritanical press is blossoming with articles on sex, one sign that traditional policies of sexual repression are undergoing attack. The sex-crime rate has soared, particularly cases of rape, which is sometimes defined to include simple seduction. Divorce is also up, and the New China News Agency reports that "disharmonious sexual life arising from a lack of sexual knowledge" is now placing great strain on many families...
...copy of the Undergraduate Council's divestment referendum. To no one in particular I muttered, "Sure, divestment's all right... the council may as well throw in a good word for it." Then it happened. My Turkey Deluxe and I were knocked to the floor. I rose to confront my assailant, and there it was--the Issue Hyper-Sensitivity Beast...