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...custom of kissing has spread from showfolk to the general population, it has raised innumerable, if minute, questions of rite and protocol. Who initiates the kiss? In a kiss between a man and woman, quite often it is the woman who makes the first move - offering her hand, inclining her cheek. But if the man is, say, the woman's boss or her husband's boss, she may wait until he leans forward into that critical distance with in which the kiss occurs...
...many critics, Roots was an Uncle Tom's Cabin for television. The short series included a number of unusually graphic scenes: the tribal rite of circumcision, the torturous voyage from Africa aboard a slaver, whippings, rapes and even the hatcheting of Kunta Kinte's foot. For many black viewers, Roots succeeded in putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little...
Though few could argue with Roots' impact, some scholars did find fault with its accuracy. "The manhood rite of the Mandinkan tribe took three or four years, not a couple of days," noted Dr. Andrew Billingsley, president of Morgan State University. "The series overdoes the black participation in the slave business, while it ignores the main slave traders-Europeans who came into African communities and rounded up people at gunpoint. The passage took longer, with 'seasoning' camps at the beginning, usually on an island off the African coast, and breeding camps...
Struggling with their own problems, world leaders watched closely?and occasionally with understandable bewilderment?to see what manner of man they would have to deal with when the exhausting and uniquely American rite of choosing a President was finally over. As he often points out, Carter has had a richly varied career: Annapolis graduate, Navy officer, nuclear engineer, successful farmer, businessman. Those experiences may have given him, as he insists, some feeling for the variety of problems facing the nation. But no President since Calvin Coolidge has entered the White House with a briefer public record. (Eisenhower had never held...
Like snowball fights in the Yard that follow after the winter's first blizzard, the controversy over the student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities has become an annual rite...