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Liberating Power. Spurred by the black community's strengthened sense of identity, black women have their own complaint. In the Negro Digest, Actress Abbey Lincoln burst out: "We are the women whose bars and recreation halls are invaded by flagrantly disrespectful, bigoted, simpering, amoral, emotionally unstable, outcast, maladjusted, nymphomaniacal, condescending [white] women in desperate and untiring search" for black men. In the first issue of the new black women's magazine Essence, due out April 28, Writer Louise Meriwether describes a typical dashiki-clad black man and his white date: " 'Sensual, sexy Black man.' That...
...food, unlike all other arts, is close to completely investigable to all. We can press our thumb through the skin of an orange and break it apart; smell it, taste it, hear it, use it, squeeze it, chew it, digest it, decompose it, excrete it, put it against our foreheads on hot days and in our pockets on the way to a show. We possess it like no other art. Unlike other arts, it doesn't conceal its etymology quite as completely. The orange is non-figurative, non-metaphorical. The orange, as food, does not stand for something else except...
...food is a total effect, localizing itself in the stomach. We digest not only the dish but the feeling of being in the room and among the people around us. For this reason, if you're eating out inexpensively, I suggest a few places whose food, supplemented by an endearing sordidness, a stylized squalor, transcends its own mediocrity. When it comes to food, in the end, we must cherish this: The exotic synthesis of antiquity and modernity rather than the onanism of self-service chain stores and surgical cafeterias or the pandering of polished fancy restaurants...
...rules do serve, it can be argued, to keep the student from scattering his course selections all over everywhere and coming out with nothing but a sort of Reader's Digest education, Intellectual dilettantism. The rules make sure the student at least does something in his four years at Harvard. In the first place, this isn't exactly true: everyone knows it is possible to get a Harvard degree while doing almost nothing for four years but reading an occasional chapter and playing the pin-ball machines. Besides, even if that argument were valid it wouldn't be compelling...
...into their own DNA molecule before they depart. There are two different viruses, the Harvard researchers knew, that invade an intestinal bacteria called E.coli and make off with several of its genes. But the two viruses capture only one bacterial gene in common: the one that enables E.coli to digest lactose, a sugar. Furthermore, the direction in which this so-called lac gene is inserted into the DNA molecule of one virus is opposite to its direction in the other virus...