Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would be, for it was meant to graft the nation's Mind back onto its Body and vice versa...
Cleaver feels the white man in America made the black slaves into superstrong bodies, stripping them of their minds. In the process, according to Cleaver, white men became competent administrators and thinkers, but became alienated from their bodies and burdened with a sense of physical impotence. Such a split between mind and body arises in any class society, but can usually be overcome. In this country, however, the split has been made permanent by racial division. It is this overcoming of the racial division which holds the key to restoring the sanity so desperately needed by both white and black...
...long passages of bitter criticism of the white race for genocide and brutality. I think the was in Biafra shows that genocide is not an evil committed only by the white race. Secondly, Cleaver has an intricate description of the psychological hangups resulting from our divorce of mind and body. These are crucial to our self-understanding, but I think our psychosexual problems in America are caused by the machine as well as by race. The feeling of impotence comes not only from the lack of independent mind or capable body, but also from a sense of being isloated...
...Saul Steinberg, William Faulkner, Giacometti (running to breakfast in the rain) show another facet of his genius. He gathers up wonderful details of his subjects' surroundings to capture them and attach them to a real world, rather than idealize and abstract them. The Faulkner picture sticks in my mind in such a way that whenever I think of him, I return to his face and thin body and yet also to the small lean dog who stretches behind...
Former Harvard defensive line coach Jim Lentz once said, "Defense is emotion." Neal fully agrees and Lentz's statement has remained in his mind. "There are great mental and emotional challenges to meet every Saturday afternoon," he affirms, and on defense "you can totally let yourself...