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...plaguing perhaps 35 percent of Blacks belongs one place only--at the feet of America's economic and political elite who lack the moral vision to confront the chronic unemployment of Blacks in post-industrial capitalism. It's curious to me that so-called "radical activist" Kenyatta fails to grasp this...
...temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Mamet's problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds his dramatic grasp. He senses that the times are out of joint, that modern urban man is doing a slow dance on a killing ground, but he seems half in love with that gaudy, bawdy death. In the title role, Colin Stinton is stubbornly and sensitively convincing in his search for the decontaminated...
DIED. Giovanni Benelli, 61, strongwilled, influential Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Florence who was twice a front runner in papal elections; after a heart attack; in Florence. As substitute Secretary of State under his friend, Pope Paul VI, Benelli earned the nickname "the Vatican Kissinger" for his shrewd grasp of international church politics and his tough, managerial style in running the powerful Curia from...
...Edward J. Hanrahan, dean of students at boston College, agreed that the survey data would help deans grasp student issues. "The problem is that administrators are probably a couple of steps behind in recognizing changes in student life." he said...
Beyond that, the new Chancellor will face vigorous opposition from the Social Democrats and from West Germany's rising third force of environmentalists and antinuclear activists known as the Greens. Kohl seemed to grasp the political difficulties confronting him as he faced television cameras after the Bundestag vote. Said he: "Now I am the Chancellor. I have been in politics too long, know too much about the daily routine of politics, not to know what difficulties lie ahead...