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...stake; I held back, took to the board, talked about racism and capitalism, tried to get them to stay with the possibility that black working people raising families have hopes and fears like their own. And when Baldwin spoke at Quincy House later that month I challenged them to confront two of their demons--blacks and Harvard--face to face. The undertaking thrust me instantly into a social "no-man's land" and taught me something about what it is like to be raised comfortably "above the battle" in an America where working whites and blacks are fighting...
Pasolini's attitude toward religion, for example, brought the problem modern Italians confront into a sharper focus. Pasolini was an atheist, and had no sympathy for the political machinations of the Church. But his racial consciousness was Roman Catholic; he took his symbols and modes of thought from Christian myth. In his prose he used Biblical forms such as the parable, and frequently quoted Christ. He preserved an Old Testament belief that the body was foul and that women were evil. (In his Hell, the demons are women.) Pasolini wanted to be a Christ-figure, to have everyone hate...
...addition to these basic issues, other key questions involving the CIA will confront the new session of Congress. The agency argues that last month's assassination of Richard S. Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, resulted from the printing of his name by the Fifth Estate, a Washington-based group dedicated to exposing covert U.S. intelligence activities. Colby favors a law that would make it a crime for a former CIA employee to reveal secrets he learned at the agency. But liberals in Congress and most journalists are certain to oppose any such sweeping gag rule...
...arrived in Cleveland that very day to visit my boyfriend, L.S., as a friend calls him, and to confront his parents. To make commections I had had to traverse the entire airport at Detroit, and the airlines had failed to transfer my luggage. Because of the holiday, no one was working and I didn't get my luggage until January 1st was almost over. I had been wearing a new green dress to freak everyone out of their minds but the novelty was beginning to pall and I was yearning for my jeans. That evening we had a sedate family...
...optimism about his personal fortunes in 1976. At ease without live television cameras whirring, both Ford and the reporters avoided the usual press-conference showboating. Ford candidly predicted that he would get his party's nomination and then go on to defeat the opponent he expects to confront as the Democratic candidate...