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Some authors inescapably suggest animals: Hemingway is a lion, Tolstoy a bear, Colette a cat. Anthologist Stephen Brook is a crow. For The Oxford Book of Dreams he has ranged over four millenniums and most of the dry surfaces of the globe in search of recorded visions. The result is a nest of glittering curiosities, some of rare value, others plucked from the dustbin of history, where they belonged. Moreover, although the collection offers hundreds of entries, it also has inexcusable gaps. The dreams of Pharaoh's servants are here, interpreted by Joseph, but they represent one-half...
...made a token effort. Mondale's chief opposition came from Cranston and South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings, who were desperate for a victory that might win some press attention. Results: Mondale 51%, Cranston 29%, Hollings 11%, Glenn 6%. So Mondale won - what? Little more than a chance to crow and privately sigh with relief...
SUCH CONCLUSIONS are deceptively simple, and Tygiel throughout illuminates the less-known and leas obvious details of the transformation. He painstakingly shows how much the elements of baseball desegregation resembled those of the desegregation movements as a whole. These included, he notes, direct confrontation with Jim Crow; courage in the face of personal abuse; economic pressures to allow Blacks into the mainstream; and indignant newspaper editorials. Jackie Robinson's increased militance towards racism over the course of his career, Tygiel writes, reflected the general militancy the civil rights movement adopted over time...
...more difficult to conceive of all the ways--and Tygiel recounts many--in which baseball desegregation helped directly speed national efforts. Just consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply entrenched Jim Crow traditions"--from the segregation on the trains players traveled in, the restaurants in which they ate, or the hotels where they slept. "We were paying our dues long before the civil rights marches," the great Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe told Tygiel proudly. "Martin Luther King told me, in my home...
While costly security systems once were mainly for the rich, they are now being eagerly sought by the less affluent. Says H. Tim Crow, vice president and secretary of Atlanta-based Rollins Protective Services (fiscal 1983 sales: $28.5 million), a supplier of detection equipment and services: "Yes, we're still protecting the wealthy-athletes, entertainers, top executives, the heirs to fortunes. We've always protected them. But now we are also protecting the middle class, or the man who is retired and lives with his wife on a pension." A survey commissioned earlier this year by Security Distributing...