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...Stanley Crouch...
...Stanley Crouch is the latest black social commentator to work a vein first excavated by the journalist George S. Schuyler during the 1940s: the scold posing as a voice of intellectual integrity. A self-proclaimed defector from the black nationalist excesses that he blames for the collapse of the civil rights struggle, Crouch likens himself to the freebooter Henry Morgan, "who sent many of his former pirate buddies to the gallows, certain that they deserved what they got." In this collection of essays and reviews, however, the former Village Voice staff writer too often allows his insights into the self...
...crouch low near the water's edge, you can see in the shallows of $ the high tide an awesome spectacle that has been recurring since before Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth: the mating dance of the horseshoe crab, one of nature's ugliest and kinkiest creatures...
...late 20s, still single, he decided to attend Harvard Business School. The curriculum appealed to him far more than Cambridge's liberal atmosphere. Watergate was nearing its climax, and Bush pere was in a defensive crouch as Republican national chairman. The son sympathized from afar, then decided to take his M.B.A. back to Midland, to learn the oil business as a "landman," one who researches mineral and land records...
With lawyers to intercept his mail and bodyguards to screen his movements, the fugitive managed to elude the U.S. Capitol police for ten days. Finally, a stakeout caught him at a stoplight near his home in Great Falls, Va. Running in a half crouch, Sergeant Tom Moore sprinted past a backup car of security men, reached through the auto's open window and slapped his quarry on the chest with a congressional subpoena. "O.K., you got me," the captive conceded...