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...interviewer was TIME Correspondent Jacob Simms; the speaker was Hoyt Fuller, managing editor of Black World magazine; the subject was the black journalist's distrust of a white world. "The black revolt," Fuller says, "is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets." Several small magazines (among them Liberator, Freedomways) are struggling to provide an outlet for the resulting explosions of prose and poetry. Fuller's Black World is by far the most influential and widely read (circulation: more than...
Already, the 28 U.S. Attorneys' offices in the South are manned by 250 lawyers. Asked by Senator Jacob Javits how Southern blacks could feel free to complain about any noncompliance with the law without fear of reprisals in their communities, Mitchell took a tough, uncompromising stance. "If there is any question of retaliation," he vowed, "we will take the swiftest and most drastic action possible under...
...accorded to the Pope's Jews centuries ago. "During the last war," he recalls, "I wasn't arrested because I could prove I was a Pope's Jew. I actually went down to the Carpentras library to look up my family tree. I got back to Jacob crémieux, who was born in Carpentras in 1611. That was good enough for the Pétainists. Later on, four French fascist policemen prepared to arrest me anyway. But then an American bomb blew up police headquarters and killed the four." Unfortunately, crémieux will...
Skeptical Children. To Americans, the atmosphere might suggest a mixture of Tanglewood and a tennis camp. But evidence of the modern U.S. is rare at Donoratico. One wonders if troubled America is becoming remote to comfortable Europeans. Senator Jacob Javits recently criticized some European leaders for thinking small. Europeans remember that the U.S. fell out with De Gaulle because he insisted on thinking big. Europeans have also watched, first critically and now with compassion, the consequences for the U.S. of thinking big in Asia...
...some roots in the basic myths of the twin culture heroes who father new tribes, cities and even heavenly bodies. Romulus and Remus, or Castor and Pollux come first to mind. But in the case of Bear and Black Bear, Blum's biblical symbolism suggests Esau and Jacob. To this are added a dash of psychedelics and some excellent literary effects. In the early pages, the prose has a deadly metallic precision. When Home goes to Russia, Blum changes his style to a controlled lyricism that quietly points toward a meaning: man can surmount such obscenities as technological soul...