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Errol T. Louis, in his recent editorial piece "The Darker Side," has certainly moderated his anti-American vituperation from the levels reached in some of the articles of his which appeared last year in What Is To Be Done? This time, in an admirable display of self-restraint, he limits himself to the charge that Blacks in this country and elsewhere are "as a group, getting beat in the head by various American institutions, chief among them the United States government." Louis is, of course, being figurative; we Blacks have not been in serious danger of random head-beating...
...probably the most repulsive in the classical lexicon: the implacably vain Apollo has beaten the satyr Marsyas in a music contest judged by the nine Muses; now he collects his forfeit, which is to skin Marsyas alive. Renaissance humanists turned this myth into a fable of reason triumphing over darker instincts, and it was in that sense that Titian meant to paint...
While the advantages of computerized work at home have always been obvious, futurists did not always see the darker side as clearly. The first drawback is that executives fear they will lose control over employees. "Management does not trust the worker at home without close supervision," says Arthur Brief, a New York University professor. "Employers are concerned if somebody is not standing with a whip over employees' heads and saying 'Produce...
...wholesomeness and "all-in-good fun" spirit that has traditionally surrounded the game is rapidly giving way to a darker, less sportsmanlike side. Stories documenting the sue of drugs and dangerous pain killers by players have surfaced. Unethical recruitment policies in the NFL and NCAA have been exposed...
...darker side of his art lies just beneath the manners, habits of class and self-conscious respectability that provide the surface tension for most of his stories. Generally, what is amusing in the author's England can turn ugly in Ireland (both north and south), where bitter years and an unfinished present conspire to drive people mad. The elderly schoolteacher in Attracta cannot help sharing with her pupils the goriest details of the latest Belfast atrocity: I.R.A. terrorists mailed the head of a British officer to his wife, who joined the Women's Peace Movement and was later...