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Bond's speech was brief, almost cursory. But it sat well with the audience which had come to see Julian Bond in the flesh more than anything else. In terse language and with an economy of emotion--now a Bond trademark--he stated matter-of-factly: "With 4 out of 5 people in this country better off today than any others in the rest of the world, we still have black people in this country not only hungry but getting hungrier, and a welfare system that taxes the poor more heavily than the rich...
...town where nobody could ever forget how the money was made," he writes. "It was picked up from the floors still slippery with blood, and if one did not protest and take a vow of vegetables, one knew at least that life was hard life was in the flesh and in the massacre of flesh-one breathed the last agonies of beasts." In this setting, in fact, Mailer engages in a bit of butchery of his own. His account seethes with contempt for conventional liberalism and the man who embodies it: the Democratic nominee. "Humphrey simply could not attach...
...Black inhumanity to Black in Biafra, so weary of being sounded in the subways by black eyes, so despairing of the smell of booze and pot and used-up hope in bloodshot eyes of Negroes bombed at noon, that he must have become in some secret part of his flesh a closet Republican-how else account for his inner 'Yeah man, yeah, go' when fat and flatulent old Republicans got up in Convention Hall to deliver platitudes on the need to return to individual human effort?" Mailer's only second thought was a postscript remark that...
Unhistoric Acts. George Eliot died in 1880. Critics still regard her as a monumental pioneer in literary technique-the unhappy ending, for example, and the creation of women characters who, if they are never shown in bed, are at least composed of flesh and blood. What stands between George Eliot and modern readers, however, is not merely her habit of intrusive and lengthy moralizing but the play of sentiment, which embarrasses perhaps for the very reason that it is so sincere. Richly mixed in, for those who wait to find it, are psychological insights that are penetrating and wittily precise...
...magical objects reports that "crystal balls are selling like popcorn" for as much as $23 apiece. New York's TBS Computer Centers Corp. now cranks out 20-page personal horoscopes for a mere $15, the electronic brain taking only a minute to compute a life history that flesh-and-blood astrologers need a week to prepare. Necromancy, the art of communication with the dead, has undergone a rebirth, abetted by California's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who engaged in a seance at which he claims to have talked with his suicide...