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...variety is endless. An African's language may be spoken by a million other people or by only a few thousand. A man may believe that work is degrading?or the proof of manhood. He may have been taught that eating people is wrong; then again, he may relish them. He may believe in the lofty concept of one god who lives on a nearby mountain; or he may believe there is a god in every tree in the forest...
When I see Black men being beaten in front of their women, I lose a bit of my manhood. When I think of how I'm not able to protect myself nor my little woman from the greedy, sadistic hands, mean cruel White hearts, and evil minds of the "White Devil," I lose a bit of my manhood and I shudder and hide my face in shame...
...MORNING, by Richard Bradford. The theme is familiar-an adolescent's search for manhood-but the telling, in this first novel, is tender and humorous...
...embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector's daughter or the gardener's. Eventually, like Huck Finn, Penrod and Holden Caulfield, all of whom he resembles, Josh painfully squirms through the gap in the hedge that separates adolescence from manhood...
Bitter Dialogue. Solzhenitsyn's novel, set in the dark atmosphere of a terminal-cancer ward, explores the contrasting lives of the patients-a soldier who was imprisoned for many years in a labor camp, a field geologist who was stricken in young manhood, an aging bureaucrat who improved his lot in life by informing on friends and neighbors. The physical malignancies of the doomed are used by the author to symbolize life in post-Stalin Russia...