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...nation like ours, lately so concerned with the effects of the media and its distortions, Ivan is a frightening demi-god, the parody of our vicarious dreams. When he first comes to Kingston, Ivan goes with a friend to see a Western film. The hero steps in front of a band of enemies, clothed in red cape and handy Gatling gun, outnumbered 25-1. "They're going to kill him," Ivan screams. But his worldly-wise companion schools him. "Don't worry mon--the hero never dies until the last reel...
...Simon & Schuster. $12.50. A collection of articles and illustrations from the granddaddy of all schlock journalism. The Gazette, which began publication in 1846, was unequaled for its sensationalism ("The foolish son of Colonel Sumpter, a wealthy politician of Hot Springs, Ark., marries a member of the St. Louis, Mo., demi-monde") and bigotry ("Sheeny Abortionist Beast Trapped by Brave Beauty"). Yet it nevertheless recorded the rapacity, brutality and savage energy of the Gilded...
...with a virtuous simplicity of instinct, properly oblivious to everything but the means to her end of maintaining the race;" Cybel is "an incarnation of Cybelle, the Earth Mother doomed to segregation as a pariah in a world of unnatural laws;" and last of all, Brown is "the visionless demi-god of our new materialistic myth--a Success--building his life of exterior things inwardly empty and resourceless...
...contest marred by outbreaks of violence and gangland headhunting, the Crimson touch football team rallied for a 23-2 victory Saturday over Box Jox, a collection of demi-intelligent administration types and paid-off Hessian hatchetmen who earlier this year had boasted of capturing the football title of Cambridge...
...Robinson as the man to do it. In that meeting, Rickey had also told Robinson that baseballs would be the least lethal things thrown at him if he decided to take the chance Rickey was offering, and then, to be sure Robinson understood what he meant. Rickey uncorked a demi-tasse of the bigot's verbal vinegar and threw it in Robinson's face...