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...tradition of kragdadigheid (ironfistedness) in dealing with blacks dies slowly. At New Canada Railway Station, hard by the giant yellow waste heaps of the gold mines, the crowd ran up against another roadblock, this one heavily manned and guarded by antiriot squads reinforced with a fleet of "Hippo" armored personnel carriers. The police responded by hurling tear-gas canisters, then opened fire on the moving crowd, and the marchers panicked. This time, as it turned out, the police were evidently trying to avoid heavy casualties, because only two people were killed in the outburst. The march was effectively halted...
...organization's "media events" have matched its rhetoric in zaniness and lack of inhibition. The slogan "No Hippo Critters" adorned the walls of San Francisco's Longshoreman's Hall in October 1974, when the first annual Hookers' Ball attracted nationwide notice. Frisco and the rest of the West mustered its most decadent and bizarre characters for the frivolous extravaganza which was marked by fantastic costumes and coyote yells and attended by transvestities, pimps, working women and the curious press. Hot-pink pasties, g-strings, sequins and nudity adorned the raucous proceedings--but the drag queens reportedly outdid the rest, leading...
Robert Rossellini's Augustine of Hippo, Sunday...
Early Christianity had its own embryonic scriptural criticism. The great 3rd century church father Origen declared that some passages in the Bible "are not literally true but absurd and impossible." Even St. Augustine of Hippo, a 5th century champion of biblical orthodoxy, cautioned against literalism. "We must be on guard against giving interpretations of Scripture that are farfetched or opposed to science," he wrote, "and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers." Despite such precedent, this spirit of critical inquiry?limited though it was?did not carry over into medieval Christendom...
...estate's 6½ wooded acres border on a private lake (stocked, of course with trout and bass), and the property includes a swimming pool and a barbecue pit big enough to broil a hippo. Future owners have access to the 55-horse stable, the 20 miles of bridle paths, trap-and skeet-shooting facilities of Smoke Rise-a private, walled and guarded community for the well-to-do located some 25 miles from Manhattan...