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...need for African Americans to repudiate openly other African Americans who express antiwhite or anti-Semitic sentiments. They maintain that public repudiations of this sort undermine African-American unity, sap the group's morale and consequently weaken it before a hostile society. They are mistaken. At the moment, an excess of conformity is far more dangerous than an excess of dissension to the well-being of the African-American community. A paucity of searching, highly public scrutiny of African-American leadership has had a disastrous effect on the tone of African-American political culture, rendering it vulnerable to the moral...
Lest you be mislead into thinking I'm going to whimper about the temperature, let me assure you that it's not the weather I'm talking about. Although the excess of snow may still be my most popular gripe and though my New England born neighbors tire of hearing me extol the virtues of the Golden State's perpetual spring, after two long winters I have almost grown accustomed to the idea that not all of my facial accoutrements will survive Harvard intact...
...there is justice, that will end this week, when his stunning Three Tall Women opens off-Broadway. Out of the simplest and most familiar material -- a woman of 90-plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess -- Albee fashions a spellbinder. Just when he exhausts the potential of naturalistic melodrama, a brilliant gimmick, part special effect and part structural surprise, lets him move into deeper philosophical terrain...
...Olympics, she will have a few more tricks in her bag. Working with a sports psychologist, she learned that she built up excess nervous energy before a performance. Now she will run up and down the corridor to get some release. She also discovered the relaxing value of comedy tapes. Her favorites are telephone scams by a couple of New York City radio disk jockeys. Says Kerrigan: "They just call up people and harass them. It lightens up the whole atmosphere...
Research conducted at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has corroborated earlier findings that breast cancer may be signaled by excess levels of the protein cyclin...