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A visiting member of the International Seminar said last summer that Reischauer had practiced a kind of diplomacy Japan had never seen before. Reischauer, he explained, goes over the heads of the Japanese diplomatic hierarchy and talks to the people. According to Reischauer, there is a good deal of truth...
Predestined Harbor. For shiftless, Kentucky-born Ben Purnell, the road to Benton Harbor was a circuitous one. After traveling around the U.S. in the 1890s in a carnival wagon, he landed in Detroit and made off with 200 followers of the Israelite faith founded by 18th century English Fanatic Joanna...
When he was assassinated, sympathetic newspapers in other countries pictured Malcolm's death as a major setback in the fight for Negro rights in America. But these reactions, said Carl Rowan, then head of the United States Information Agency, were based on "misinformation." All the praise for Malcolm X, he...
In this perspective, the significance of Malcolm's death emerges. If his shifts of attitude were not the power plays of an irresponsible Negro leader desiring a personal following--and these books say they were not--then what Malcolm was groping for when he died might have helped the Negro...
A romantic history of Cannabis would include mention of the fanatic Moslem sect of Hashashins (or "Assassins")--who murdered under its influence--and of writers like Baudelaire, Dumas, and some of our contemporaries who have found in it creative inspiration. A less romantic history might chronicle the squalid introduction of...