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...Waldo Ellison, L.H.D., novelist. He has fashioned a mighty allegory of the central conflict of our age. The terrors and exaltation of black existence in an unseeing white universe have the force and violent conviction of Melville's searing voyage in search of a phantom whale-which is everyman's ordeal...
...appreciate his achievement, it is desirable, but not necessary, to have read the novel. By cultural osmosis, even the nonreader knows the basic story. The opening line, "Call me Ishmael," sounds a ghostly summoning bell on everyman's ship, Pequod, "a noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy...
Suddenly the cast of thousands disappears. The brilliant-and clearly well-researched - pageant of 7½ centuries of "galloping inhumanity" (1202 to 1947) drastically slows its tempo. African Everyman becomes specific-one Raymond-Spartacus Kassoumi of a Nakem that increasingly resembles Mali. Nakem's black rulers have already decided that only slaves will be exposed to corrupt French schooling. Raymond comes of a slave family. He studies hard and, as his reward, ends up in Paris receiving an elite-and not so elite-education. To Ouologuem, Kassoumi is the ultimate sophistication of slavery: the black man imprinted with...
...overloaded his circuits. Even when he is strolling down the street, minding his own business, his poor brain jerks under the impact of instructions (WALK-DON'T WALK), threats (TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED), and newsstand alarms (PLANE CRASH AT TEL AVIV). Finally, Le Clézio's Everyman goes numb-nature's last defense. Spoken words become mere sounds, a meaningless buzz in the ears. The most urgent printed words-a poem by Baudelaire, a proclamation of war-have no more profound effect than the advice he reads (without really reading) on a book of matches: PLEASE...
...Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan a plan for joint production of a low-cost auto. It would have a 30-h.p. engine, be available in about two years and sell for $800 to $1,000. The car could be called a modern Model T, an updated and streamlined car-for-Everyman, reminiscent-in concept at least-of the original, which Henry Ford I built 15.5 million times over between...