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...most surprising thing about all of this is the widely held belief that it is new. In politics memories are notoriously short. Thus we find the just-published biography of Julian Bond making the erroneous assertion that Bond was "the first black man in the history of the country to be proposed for the job of Vice-President"--a claim that is constantly being iterated elsewhere. The idea of a black President or Vice-President is, actually, far from novel. And all the current discussion needs to be placed in its historical context. This context has two main aspects...
...found in the older Christian tradition. God has, if not frequently, at least on occasion been compared to a mother and female imagery has been applied to God more than once even in the Bible. One possible example, and it is particularly appropriate because the author, Dame Julian of Norwich, is herself a woman and because she links Jesus who appeared on earth in male form to the mother image, is to be found in her Revelations of Divine Love, written down in 1373 (chapter 58) which runs: "For in our Mother Christ we profit and increase and in mercy...
Directed by DON SIEGEL Screenplay by HARRY JULIAN FINK, R.M. FINK and DEAN RIESNER...
...Camps. For the first time, black voters and politicians have real political power in the Democratic Party and the luxury of several options on how to wield it. When preliminary meetings began last spring, black leaders were divided into two major camps. Georgia State Representative Julian Bond led a push to nominate black favorite-son candidates in each of the states where chances of increasing black delegate strength looked good. Bond and his supporters argued that state delegates committed through the first ballot to a black favorite son, combined with black delegates from other states, would present a formidable bloc...
...hearing before a "relatively impartial" panel. The solitary cells must have adequate light, ventilation and sanitary facilities, and stays in solitary must not exceed 15 days. The court also ruled that institution officials were failing to make an effort to rehabilitate some inmates. One of the prisoners' lawyers, Julian Tepper of the National Law Office in Washington, D.C., believes that the verdict establishes a convict's nascent right to rehabilitation that will become a precedent in other states. Patuxent officials plan to appeal the decision...