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Bows & Arrows. Clearly, none of the prelates intended to affront the Pope. Just as clearly, their vote indicated that the council does have a mind of its own, and that the bishops cannot be satisfied with platitudes. The schema was denounced in language so harsh that the moderator of the discussion pleaded with the bishops to be more temperate. Irish-born Bishop Daniel Lamont of Rhodesia, for example, complained: "We needed fire and they give us a candle. We wanted powerful weapons to do the battles of the Lord and they give us bows and arrows...
...harsh attack on the missions schema suggested that the third session of the council may be as unproductive, in terms of the volume of documents approved, as the second-although for a different reason. Last fall's session was frustrated by the dilatory maneuvers of the council's conservatives. This time the pace has been slowed by the progressive majority, which has called for radical revisions of every schema presented for debate. The missions document was one of seven shortened items that council authorities hoped would skate by without any trouble; the first three to be voted...
...fatal defect" in the organization of the grand jury because "the basis of selection was race." Well attuned to local mores, the appellate court stressed the "somewhat paradoxical" effect of such selection-the wide spread Southern phenomenon that fearful or complaisant Negro jurors have a tendency to be especially harsh on Negro defendants...
...prisoners of our mechanisms, of the harsh or easy tyrannies of our bodies and of society. Possession of intelligence does not change this galling truth; it merely makes us aware of it. The rebellious spirit is jerked short by the end of the chain...
Ellison, no less than Baldwin, indicts slavery and segregation for the lasting wounds that they have inflicted on the Negro. But he does not believe that the Negro's life in the U.S. has been a complete horror story. In spite of lynchings, beatings and everyday insults, the "harsh discipline of Negro life" has instilled in Negroes certain admirable qualities that are lacking in most whites: patience, humor, a "rugged sense of life." Ellison's own life in Oklahoma City, he reminisces, was happy and vital, even though it was segregated, even though his mother was thrown into...