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Many of the books now pouring off the presses on the race issue hesitate, falter, flounder and peter out in mawkish sentimentality or pious preaching. This book by Charles Silberman, a FORTUNE magazine editor, marches in no-nonsense fashion to a number of hard truths that are not meant to comfort or console. It is impossible, writes Silberman, "to tell the truth about race relations without offending and angering men of both colors." Some Silberman points...
...Harlem speech. But during that day, he had several conferences on, plus work to be done on a foreign policy address to be delivered later at a major rally. He therefore instructed a couple of speechwriters to work up a talk that contained some positive proposals, not mere pious platitudes. The Negro Cabinet-member proposal was the result, and Lodge was dismayed when he saw it. But advance copies of the speech had already been delivered to the press, so Lodge decided to go ahead with it. As a final irony, it turned out that the appearance was in Spanish...
Jocelin discovers his own sexuality with a jolt, in his passionate guilt toward the woman he had used to detain the Master Builder. He begins to question the pious motives which led him to marry her, his "daughter in God," to an important church sweeper. But even here some of the circumstances seem arbitrary. The spire's mysterious patroness turns out to have been the dead king's mistress, angling for immortality. The news that this woman also has supervised his rise in the church hastens Jocelin further into delirium...
...sculpture occupies a sort of blue-velours-lined grotto, bathed in the beams of 50 spotlights. Toward the darker wings, 400 hanging half-watt blue lights gently twinkle, serving as automatic votive lamps. Behind the sculpture looms a 25-ft.-high theatrically draped cross, like a pious afterthought, while piped-in Gregorian chants tranquilize the atmosphere...
...uproar over Sayre recalls a stern warning from the American Council on Education to schools of all sizes: "Pious statements about the importance of teaching will be viewed increasingly with a cynical and jaundiced eye by faculty members who know the facts of life...