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...Grandfather Albert Morrow, a 19th century U.S. Cavalry officer. The younger Morrow's meditation on the rediscovery of America appears in the Nation section, but he brings to the subject the same subtlety, wit and fascination with new concepts that animate his Essays. Says Morrow: "For me, ideas possess both drama and real, physical, palpable force...
...partition plan now under consideration will reserve much less land for the Hopis than they now officially possess. But it will eventually force thousands of Navajos and some Hopis to leave where they live and take what some call "the second Long Walk." For many caught on the wrong side of the meandering new line, life is about to turn into a latter-day Palestinian partition story. Some traditionalists have refused to go, despite a substantial offer of resettlement money. "I live inside four mountains, and I pray to them," says Navajo Katherine Smith, 60, who spent a night...
...means of fair and reasonable offers of accommodation to the other groups, it might give them little option except to ensure their political survival by more authoritarian means. But they would find it hard to live long with authoritarianism in light of the democratic tradition and spirit they possess, at least among themselves...
...system are engaged to be the first in the line of fire to save it. By 1985, say Pentagon projections, the Army will be 45% black. The troubling part is not that blacks and other minority groups are incapable of defending the nation well (on the contrary, they often possess the brains and esprit some others lack), or that they should not be allowed to improve their lot with military careers. The difference is that guarding the nation is not just another job; it is a moral obligation involving jeopardies and commitments that cannot safely be jobbed out, in effect...
Eventually, of course, Yoda relents and instructs Luke in the ways of the Jedi and the uses of the Force, that strange, mystical power that all Jedis possess. "Life creates it and makes it grow," the little gnome explains. "Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we . . . Feel the flow. Feel the Force around you." Luke does, to a degree. By an exertion of will he can move rocks and other small objects-like a wildly beeping and protesting Artoo Detoo. Yet when he tries to raise his ship, which is mired in the swamp, Luke fails...