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A: Look, the blacks are victims of the much larger problem of America today. We've actually become quite handy to some whites, and most blacks could stay up late dreaming about whites plotting against them. Actually if it wasn't us it would be somebody else. The machine keeps...
Life in Tijuana has moved in cycles. During the Prohibition era, the Baja California town glittered as a south-of-the-border oasis for thirsty Hollywood movie stars and horseplayers at Agua Caliente Racetrack; Alex and Caesar Cardini invented Caesar salad one evening to feed the throngs at their beleaguered...
The battle lines are clearly drawn. The McGovern young can argue with considerable justice that America's alienated youth were invited to work within the system, and (BAM! POW! SPLAT!) they did. Armed with the reform rules that McGovern helped to formulate, the young legions this year shattered political...
Almost everything at the camp is geared to study. A class in shop teaches the grinding of telescope lenses. Instead of just whacking at the local bugs commonly called "no-see-ums," the campers scrutinize them under microscopes and discover that they are of the genus Culicoides. Even practical jokes...
THE HISTORICAL and mythical material is constantly enlivened by the author's own eye and ear for the social customs of the region. He switches easily from the details of daily life--Pedro watching his kint on her knees grinding corn--to those of religious ceremony--Pedro helping prepare the...