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...surprising that you do not suggest a correlation between the riots and the much-discussed dissatisfactions of youth with the soullessness of a materialistic culture. I wonder if these riots are entirely the fruit of discrimination, if these Negroes are indeed those who dream of job and suburban serenity. It seems to me, rather, that the rioters share the bored frustration and inarticulate revulsion against society that erupts in riots of young whites on vacation or in orgies of vandalism by elite young partygoers-or in the less sensational but more disturbing apathy of many of my fellow college students...
...cause of it all is the tall marula tree, which right after the rainy season bears a succulent, plumlike fruit that the elephants love. Local Africans use the marula fruit to make a highly potent beer, but one elephant can eat enough fruit in a day to supply a whole village. Then the elephant goes to a water hole and drinks gallons of water. The result: its stomach immediately becomes a huge still in which the fruit ferments and forms alcohol. The elephant becomes hopelessly drunk, reeling around wildly and often standing up on its hind legs to reach more...
...late in the 1930's. We knew of local retired officials but there's a whole school of thought about this gentry class that as grown up in the last 15, 20 years and is now being studied in detail. It's one of the great Chinese inventions, the fruit of the examination system, tied in with landlordism, tied in with the values of literacy--all of it forming the local elite who are the key to local government and order. So the local magistrate in the Chinese kingdom is a very solitary figure in the old days...
...Europeans controlled virtually the whole Arab world-the largely bitter fruit of Arab cooperation with Britain against the Ottoman Turks in World War I. At the time, the growing Zionist movement argued that Palestine was a "land without people for a people without land." In fact, it contained 640,000 Arabs. Even so, in different circumstances, the Arabs might well have been able to accept a Jewish state in their midst. But against this historical background it was easy for nationalist propaganda to inflame the Arab masses and to make the establishment of Israel seem like the ultimate indignity...
...trying to outdo himself, Monday night Shure tackled not two but three major works of the piano repertoire. Once again, Beethoven and Schubert figured prominently on the program, the former represented by the venerated Sonata in E, Op. 109, and the latter by another fruit of his frantic but fecund last eleven months, the Sonata in c minor, Op. posthumous...