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...racism and other apparently insoluble problems-pollution, poverty and the energy crisis. The illustrations show successful Chicanos and Asian Americans, most of them smiling a lot. Blacks were there before, but mainly as slaves and oppressed sharecroppers. Now they are scientists wearing lab coats. In the old pantheon of black leaders George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington have been joined not only by Martin Luther King Jr. but by Radical Educator W.E.B. Du Bois and Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Susan B. Anthony has replaced Dolley Madison. As for the oldest of ethnic heroes, Christopher Columbus, he is only...
GLORIA MUNDI by Eleanor Clark Pantheon; 214 pages...
BLOOD OF SPAIN by Ronald Fraser Pantheon; 628 pages...
...made the case for this side of sexual inspiration (as carefully distinguished from practice) more bluntly than Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Robert J. Stoller. In his new book, Sexual Excitement (Pantheon; $11.95), he says: "It is hostility-the desire, overt or hidden, to harm another person-that generates and enhances sexual excitement. The absence of hostility leads to indifference and boredom...
...doubts of whether this year's Harvard heavyweight crew deserves membership in the pantheon of great Harvard crews vanished Saturday when the undefeated varsity bolted past Princeton and MIT for its 17th straight Compton Cup and a new Charles River record...