Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edmund Muskie, limping into fourth place with only 10% of the vote, was the real loser. Once regarded as the front runner, Muskie's defeats in Florida and Wisconsin have deflated his "trust and confidence" campaign. In an almost breathtaking descent (see story, page 20), Muskie in a matter of weeks has become merely another contender...
Then there's Robert Silverberg's "Sundance", embodying the dilemma of Tom Two Ribbons, "a biologist-spaceman of American Indian descent," and a member of an expedition to eliminate the race of the Eaters, animal pests who obstruct the colonization of an alien planet. When Tom begins to think he perceives an elaborate set of rituals and social relations among the Eaters, is it interplanetary genocide or only the failure of his "psychological reconstruct" to protect him from his own historic past...
Survival Test. Although Pacino was a long shot who had to overcome both Paramount's skepticism and some big-name competition to win his role (TIME, March 13), no member of the cast has a more appropriate background for the movie. Of mostly Sicilian descent, he was raised in the South Bronx, a place that is less a neighborhood than a survival test. He was a solitary boy who used to hide out for hours atop an advertising billboard and who lived in fantasies spawned by the movies his mother took him to see. (His father, a mason...
...black American calls for a truer expression of historical and ethnic relatedness between himself and the African. This demand for historical and ethnic roots, and the vehement quest of identity requires a deep and vital interest in the social and cultural sources of Black America. Americans of other ethnic descent, while still remaining hundred per cent Americans, are proud of their ancestral traditions, and acknowledge them freely. The black American, while also insisting on remaining American, is now beginning to acknowledge his African heritage, and seeks with enthusiasm knowledge of the history and cultures of his ancestors...
...carrying out French Surrealist Andre Breton's definition of art as "a cry of the mind against itself." In Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man, a psychiatrist systematically freaks out, illustrating the advantages of what might be termed "planned madness." In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing suggests that madmen may be mankind's front-running mutants-the pioneers of "inner space," the avant-garde of a superior race to come. Even John Updike, a traditionalist by temperament, includes in his latest novel, Rabbit Redux, the obligatory resident madman, a "Christ of the New Dark...