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Mythical Melting Pot. By contrast, Richard Rubenstein has converted similar concerns into a lively argument full of historic fact. His theme is simple - and fashionable. Violence, he says in Rebels in Eden, is often an effective and imperative act of the powerless seeking imperative act of the powerless seeking power. American history is incomparably richer in violence than most Americans are willing to remember...
...butchers illustrate diverging white explanations of what lies behind the pervasive fear of black crime in Dorchester-Mattapan. Nathan Epstein thinks Supreme Court decisions have made policemen powerless. "Blame the fact that they changed our Constitution," he says. "At one time, if anyone would do something wrong, he would be punished. It isn't a question of the blacks. The police can't do anything." His colleague, Joseph Schaer, objects heatedly: "They gave you 45 stitches. They took my pants, for Christ's sake. It's a good thing they didn't murder...
Kahn does distinguish between tenured and junior faculty. He credits some of the young faculty members with sensitivity towards the racist and militaristic aspects of the university and endorses their complaints. But Kahn sees junior faculty as an essentially powerless group prevented from implementing necessary changes by a rigid hierarchy whose top levels are complacently ruled by tenured professors. The few senior faculty who did attempt to take part in resolving the crisis after the disruptions began are properly credited by Kahn for their effort. But according to Kahn the majority of the tenured faculty succeeded only in tying...
...friend of mine, tripped out on mescaline, ran into a girl be used to know at a party. The girl was upset, more than a little drunk, and ready to tell the whole world what was bugging her. My friend listened to her story, sympathized with it, but felt powerless to do anything. Finally he said. "I don't know what to say,-. There are only two things I can do-and I'll do them if you want. I can go to bed with you or I can kill you. That's all." The girl smiled, said thanks...
...petty neuroses and massive insecurities culled from Jules Feiffer's cartoons, he might have a mate to a Woody Allen show. The play that is struggling to be let out from his plays is the saga of the urban loser, frustrated by a world he never made and powerless to control or change it. This is the proposition Feiffer refuses to admit to himself. He still sees the theater as an instrument of social betterment. That is why he writes killer farces like Little Murders and now The White House Murder Case. The thesis is that...