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...MUMBO JUMBO...
...bargain prices for some time, but his laughs are not cheap. The outrageousness of his comic vision and the sinister coils of his prose beg comparison with William Burroughs. Survivors of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance may also be reminded of the orneriness of George Schuyler, the Black Mencken. Mumbo Jumbo is set-or rather cut loose-in the Harlem of the '20s, although Reed's ideas of renaissance slide all the way back to ancient Egypt. Like a street-hustling Norman O. Brown, Reed jives Western civilization into its mythological parts. There is the power of light, reason...
...film, however, shows Malcolm's development from star preacher for Elijah Muhammad to independent political figure. The transformation is told in newsreel footage that still holds the power to singe the conscience. We see Malcolm on street corners, fervently laying down the Black Muslim gospel of mumbo-jumbo racism, castigating the "palefaces" and "white devils" and attracting the angriest, most disaffected of blacks with his unyielding insistence on racial pride. Then we watch a rift develop between Malcolm and Elijah, a break that began with Malcolm as part of his political growth...
...speed freak on the corner who hustled bad acid and talked non-stop about getting it all together "in a commune somewhere." Hippie began to dress in a black cape, wearing a Mephistophiles beard and an upside-down crucifix, cultivating a rap of strange mumbo-jumbo, anywhere from the teachings of the English satanist Aleister Crowley to the fascist meanderings of Robert Heinlein's science fiction masterpiece, Stranger in a Strange Land. Hippie became a laboratory rat for Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest, for out on the street, the rule of the land seemed to rest...
When Dewey became Manhattan's district attorney, Fuld headed his indictments bureau and soon became a leading criminal-law reformer. Appalled at the prolix, mumbo-jumbo language of indictments, he boiled the lengthy forms into two or three precise sentences. Fuld's forms are still in use throughout the state. By weeding out other legal technicalities, such as overly narrow categories of larceny, which left loopholes for the guilty, Fuld earned high praise from at least one leading judge, who wrote to urge his elevation to New York's top court. Governor Dewey soon obliged...