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...slamming the door will not soon dispel the antagonism toward nonwhites that originally arose in the colonial era and was later compounded, as the Empire faded, by an uneasy feeling that racial diversity was yet another symptom of national decline. As one troubled Londoner complained to TIME, many Britons "have been made to feel that they don't belong to their own country any more." A white lawyer, speaking about a visit to the capital's racially mixed Peckham area, expressed a common lament: "I felt completely alien. I felt pressure...
Collected Stories: 1939-1976 provides a chance to isolate and trace one strand of Bowles' remarkable career. The book's 39 tales are not only worth reading on their own, but their assembly should dispel several myths that have grown up around Bowles' work. First, spreading his talent wide has not meant that he spread it thin; any short list of the best contemporary American stories should include two or three from this volume. Second, Bowles' reputation as a pitiless chronicler of the bizarre and sadistic is undeserved; many of his stories are unquestionably grotesque...
...Arabia. Down at the G.O.P.'s Tidewater Conference he seized the moment and focused on SALT as an occasion for a broad re-examination of the "total military and foreign policy relationship between the Soviet Union and the U.S." It was, in Baker's eyes, time to dispel the tattered remnants of Arthur Vandenberg's bipartisan tradition, something that was right a generation ago, just after World War II, but is not fully applicable in today's psychological struggles...
Originally, modern interest in ancient pagan practices was spurred by research early in this century by British Anthropologist Margaret Murray, who sought to dispel folklore that witches were invariably malevolent. But today's neopagan movement has its roots in the counterculture. Though many neopaganists live otherwise ordinary lives as, say, bank tellers or bartenders, others gather in communes. Psychologists say that neopaganism functions as a form of "folk therapy," a sort of ritualized search for self-worth in an increasingly complex society...
...times Clark did little to dispel that mage. In an appeal to Jewish voters in Toronto, Clark grandly promised that he would move the Canadian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem-a move that would complicate Ottawa's relations with the Arab world. Clark's handlers were so leery of verbal miscues that they limited his appearances to small groups and friendly audiences. They also shrewdly declined to put forward detailed proposals that Trudeau, an unmatched debater, could pick apart. One exception: a highly popular plan for partial tax deductions for home mortgage interest payments...