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...like men," even though "they could not grasp their collective strength as a people and and act like political men." It allowed for people like the old slave who answered a young white minister's "Primarily, we must postulate the existence of a deity," with a gentle, "Yes, Lord, dat's so. Bless de Lord." It allowed slaves to be compassionate even after a presumably all-consuming liberation, like the one who told of a visit to his old master...
...went to see him in his last days and I set by him and kept de files off while dere. I see the lines sorrow had plowed on dat old face, and I' membered he'd been a captain on hoss back indat war. It come into my 'membrance de song of Moses; de Lord had triumphed glorily and de hoss and his rider have been throwed into...
This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...
...tonnage totals did not include supplies being hauled by El Al's jets or heavy equipment-like M-60 tanks-being transported in Israeli ships. One day last week, the Israeli freighter Aben Dat took on tracked vehicles and other matériel at Norfolk, Va., Naval Station and then put to sea at 4 a.m. Nor do the U.S. figures include 30 F-4 Phantom fighters and 50 A-4 Skyhawk light attack bombers that the U.S. has agreed to give Israel...
...Heah comes da Wolfman!" the voice rasps in rural black accents. "Don't touch dat dial!" High-pitched giggles lacerate the air, quickly followed by a rough approximation of a wolf howl. "We gotta whole lotta soul comin' atcha," the voice promises. "Rock V roll wid da Wolfman. Lay yo' hand on da radio right now 'n' feeel...