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...furor began when Enoch Powell, 55, a right-wing Tory M.P. from the industrial Midlands, launched an attack on an antidiscrimination bill introduced by the Labor government to protect Britain's 1,000,000 coloreds-a term that covers shades from light tan to dark black and encompasses Indians and Pakistanis as well as African and West Indian Negroes. Powell, a onetime teacher of Greek and a classics scholar, has a record for independence and strong-mindedness. Having decided in 1963 to try for the Tories' top job, he refused to serve in Alec Douglas-Home...
...Minister of Defense in his shadow Cabinet. But the speech produced an outpouring of support for Powell's position. More than 2,000 tough Limehouse dockworkers walked off their jobs and marched on Parliament with signs that read BACK BRITAIN, NOT BLACK BRITAIN and DON'T KNOCK ENOCH. They were followed by butchers from Smithfield Market, still dressed in their bloodied smocks. At one point, the longshoremen's protest tied up London's docks...
...issue that is often raised in the British Parliament, the seat of government for Britain's 98% white population. Yet there it was last week. Tory M.P. Duncan Sandys, a former Colonial Secretary, called for "immediate legislation to curtail the influx of immigrants into Britain." Enoch Powell, a onetime Tory Minister of Health, expressed the fear that Britain's simmering race problem "will at the end of the century be similar in magnitude to that...
...hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Enoch Arden), 2) the technique of giving "scientific treatments" to customers by massaging on creams and lotions from a previous employer, Eleanor Adair, and 3) $6,000 from a cousin, she set up her first salon, for well-heeled society matrons, in a converted brownstone house at 509 Fifth Avenue. The loan...
...pilgrimage through the metamorphic landscape, Goat-Boy re-enacts some of the known episodes of the life of Christ. He confounds philosophers, has disciples and enemies, is tempted by power and false worship. At one stage, he denies (or asserts) himself: "I'm no Enoch Enoch [God]. I've got as much Billygoat as Graduate [Christ]. And as much as the Dean o' Flunks [the devil] or anyone else." While Barth seems to be crudely baiting religion, he is actually enunciating his concern with the theological conception of the hypostatic nature of Christ-that Christ was both...