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Only the study of the best aspects of the Black freedom struggle and a strong sense of self-identity can alleviate Blacks' rage and feeling of "nobodiness," Cornel West '74 said yesterday in this year's first W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture...
...performed a ferocious version of Masters of War that demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk now can comfortably encompass the salty sensitivity and social speculation of Willie Nile's Hard Times in America (Polaris) as well as the rap-inflected rage of the Native American activist John Trudell on AKA/ Grafitti Man (Ryko). It has a newer, wider compass, and, as ever, Bob Dylan is magnetic north...
...Women, Aging and the Menopause (Knopf; $24). The two books deserve credit for making menopause a word that can be uttered in mixed company, but you don't have to be perimenopausal to experience a full range of symptoms as you work through these books, from hot flashes of rage to the cold sweat of terror...
Think of the consequences for art. In novels like those of Graham Greene, when a married couple is on the verge of mutual annihilation they inquire politely into each others' health, and ask whether they should brew some tea, while technicolor rage circulates beneath. "Yes, Fred. Get the tea." The tension screams out from the mundanity. Now all we get is some pretentious, self-proclaimed novelist giving us 50 pages of emotional history, followed by a long conjugal argument repeating the same. My interest usually lapses early on." Bob's childhood was rough. The lawnmower his father wielded intimidated...
...affluent classes of developed countries have rejected high-demand sects and cults in favor of no-demand faiths. Groups loosely lumped together as the World Soul Movement originated with the synthetic pantheist, neopagan, nature- love and New Age groups that were the rage early in the 21st century. The triumph of feminist religion caused many Christians and Jews to shun references to God in personal terms (no more Lord or Heavenly Father). This in turn strengthened the groups that worship a mysterious nature-force or seek to deify the self. Today's variegated religious revival is partly the result...