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Handlin compared the present international situation to "living in the edge of a volcano" and warned that Americans must realize that it can erupt, but meanwhile, there are things we can do to postpone or prevent its eruption...
...just beneath that cosmopolitan veneer, ready to erupt, are tensions between the Cubans and their fellow Floridians. Dade County voters last year approved, 3 to 2, an ordinance that forbids the spending of its public funds to promote bilingualism. The bad blood has risen dramatically since the arrival of the Marielitos last year. Whites in particular resent picking up the tab of caring for the newcomers, but the animosity spills over on all Cubans. "I wonder who really upsets whites the most," says Monsignor Bryan Walsh, who ran a resettlement program for Cuban children in the 1960s, "the poor Cuban...
Stonefaced, the referee held his ground. "The call is let, Mr.Khan." Khan thought about that for a minute. Khan's face grew darker, and his wieldy chest larger at the absence of justice in the world. Something unprecedented was about to erupt...
...Lawrence's character: Incensed by the Indians performing their sacred dances for the pleasure of the company. I awrence suddenly starts breaking dishes. While it is surely understandable that he does "not want to be part of a literary zoo," there is no reason he should so violently erupt into a temper-tantrum a twelve-year-old would be ashamed to call his own. Lawrence's lack of character development alternated with explosive, melodramatic scenes, make him seem more a psychopath than an artist...
...collision of white intransigence with Black aspirations makes revolution inevitable. Tofile expects a violent revolution to erupt within the next five years, if not sooner. Mazibuko sees a pattern of steadily escalating urban violence, with terrorist attacks on civilians. These incidents will be met with massive Government retaliation, which in turn will cause a mass, uncontrolled Black uprising. Beckett believes South African has about a 1 per cent chance of avoiding revolution. It will be a very long and drawn-out struggle, unlike any revolution in history, he said, adding that there has never been a revolution in a country...