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Increasingly, whites are making no pretense of racial tolerance, and right-wing politicians like Enoch Powell are capitalizing on fanning the flames of prejudice. And his techniques seem to be spreading...
...Mail-Express-Mirror, edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, but had soon turned to his customary European Times. The headlines, on this sunny day in 1984, were depressingly familiar. Europe's trade gap was still widening (there was another warning from Brussels that Europe must "export or die"). Enoch Powell, a sprightly 72-year-old eccentric who lived in the South of France, had made a speech in Nice warning, yet again, that Europe would collapse unless something was done about the rising tide of Japanese immigration. There was a new row about sex education. The leading article dealt...
...British Conservative Party's "class of 1950" was perhaps the most impressive collection of young Tories ever to enter the House of Commons at one time. In its ranks were Edward Heath, Iain Macleod, Enoch Powell and Reginald Maudling, who together were to hold most of Britain's top offices of state during the next two decades. Yet now, only two years after the Conservatives' return to power, Prime Minister Heath has lost the services of all three of his longtime colleagues. Macleod died in 1970, shortly after becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer. Powell was excluded from...
Meantime, an entire mythology of the origin of devils arose. One story, based largely on a nonbiblical narrative known as the Book of Enoch (and brief mentions in Genesis and the epistles of Jude and II Peter), told of an angelic race of "Watchers," who were tempted to have intercourse with terrestrial women, and sired a race of giants. The giants died in internecine battle, but their bodies gave forth demonic spirits that prowled the world doing evil...
...become "spoiled rituals" if the departed guest comes back for his forgotten umbrella, or if the transferred employee is reassigned to his old job. Then he and his well-wishers find they have participated "in an inappropriate statement, yet one that cannot be unsaid." The extreme example is "the Enoch Arden case in which a person returning unexpectedly finds not only that his place is no longer available to him, but that another person has filled it, thereby creating what may be worse than a sociological demise, namely, a sociological double...