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...reconstruct the total black experience. Now, more than ever, it is, in the words of the introduction to the current issue of the Harvard Journal of Afro-American Affairs "a psychological revolution which demands the redefinition and restructuralization of fundamental premises governing our existence." As such, its sine qua non is the formation of mechanisms of communication which will "aid in formulating, articulating and implementing new concepts and programs for the liberation of our people...
...Sine Qua Non. One reason for the confusion in policy is that Americans have been accustomed to act as if cheap and abundant energy were assured through eternity. Power-to heat and light buildings, propel cars and planes, keep computers and other machines purring-is the sine qua non of an industrial society. The U.S. has been consuming it far more greedily than any other nation. Americans make up 6% of the earth's population but use approximately 40% of its energy-producing fuels. According to a study by the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, the nation's energy...
...used to look down on football fanatics before I became one myself. My conversion was like Alypus', as described by Augustine in his Confessions: "Quid plura? Spectavit, clamavit, exarsit, abstulit, inde secum insaniam qua stimularetur redire; non tantum cum illis a quibus prius abstractus est, sed etiam prae etiam prae illis, et alios trahens." New, as if to prove the medieval maxim that one must believe in order to understand, I have come to see what all the excitement is about...
...traded, the leagues are reshuffled, etc. Thus, except for the hopelessly simple-minded, there is no real emotional commitment on the part of the fan, which precludes ill-feeling or bitterness, The players, we know, are playing for themselves, and not upholding any sentimental college reputation. In the game qua game there are no political issues at stake (hence the President watches football on TV as demonstrators storm around the White House), no economic or social problems, and best of all no tragic situations...
What's most enduring, though, about the movie qua movie is the depth of intimacy between camera and subject, a depth which bespeaks much patience and long familiarity. Warrendale is neither the expose that Follies was not a panegyric like Synanon, but a complex view of an institution which isn't open to easy evaluation. It's clear that more such places are needed, yet it's also clear that personal as well as social obstacles are in the way; with the possible exception of Walter, none of the staff comes off appealing or even particularly competent, more like...