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...Middle America's fears, perhaps best expressed in the November campaign, helped fuse black solidarity. The campaign ignored blacks, but in its stress on law-and-order, many blacks read a code for white fear of black crime, thus an anti-black slur. It encouraged a general turning inward that was already under way, creating a greater tolerance among blacks for other blacks' views and strategies. Integration-in the sense of accepting white values to the point where all black identity fades-is clearly no longer the immediate goal, not even for middle-class blacks who might once...
...puts it, "you get yours and I get mine." What seems black separatism, such as the kind of self-imposed apartheid prevalent on many college campuses, is a temporary stage, a step in the march toward pluralism. Black college students are probably still in the van of the turning-inward movement, of going back to black roots, of finding comfort and security in blackness. Says one Columbia student: "The notion is not to get killed and not to be exploited...
...testimony is both graphic and moving, and it takes two forms. There is an outward and an inward questioning, both of which led to the self-proclaimed "radicalization" of the defendants. The outward questioning consists of an account of conditions in other countries for which the Catonsville Nine hold the U.S. morally culpable. For example, Defendant George Mische testifies...
...many forms of Buddhism, the one best known in the West is Zen. Its guiding principles of inward meditation versus doctrine, of emphasis on the visceral and spontaneous as against the cerebral and structured, of inspiration rather than linear "logic," were seized on by the early beatniks, taken up by many of the young today, and were incorporated into the mystique of America's counterculture. But what kind of art did Zen provoke in China and Japan? In a brilliant show that took a year to assemble, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts has provided a definitive survey...
...vellum, a contemplative who shunned the world of action and became one of the very few 20th century painters who could work small without implying some degree of frustration. Paul Klee's natural space was a scrap of paper ten inches wide, and all its perspectives faced inward. "I have never," said his friend Jankel Adler, "seen a man who had such creative quiet. His face was that of a man who knows about day and night, sky and sea and air. I have often seen Klee's window from the street, with his pale oval face like...