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...strange that this orphic saint who dined on clouds became a prophet of the culture's materialism. He was the nation's first international-class man of letters. He taught much of the 19th century how to write. He gave America a metaphysics: he sought to join the nation's intellect to its power. Emerson sanctified America's ambitions. Like the nation, he was, he said, "an endless seeker, with no past at my back." He was the wonder-rabbi of Concord, Mass., our bishop, the mystic of our possibilities...
...tontons-macoutes, Duvalier's security forces, control Haiti by means of arbitrary arrest, tontons, imprisonment without trial, and execution Victims of the tontons-macoutes include political leaders, unionists, journalists and civilians. According to Gerard Saint-Juste, director of New York's Haitian Refugee Center, some 30,000 people have been killed in Haiti over the last few years. In fact, he notes, there are 35 jails per school and 189 soldiers per teacher in Haiti. When the President-for-Life appears at public ceremonies, he carries a chrome-plated revolver in his hand...
PART OF THE AMERICAN friendliness toward the Haitian government stems from Reagan's wish to establish a military base in Haiti. Ambassador Vernon Walters (former CIA deputy director) has been negotiating for a site on Tortuga Island. Mole St. Nicolas, Gonave Island or Saint Marc Point. Apparently, Duvalier will allow a base in exchange for U S guns and dollars...
...always wanted to be a saint," McNaught said, "but I also had a crush on Tarzan, and I was very confused...
...LEFT BANK--"that narrow strip of old houses and older streets along the Seine"--was the center of the intellectual world during the period Lottman describes. The doings and sayings of those who congregated in the cafes of Saint German and Saint Michel, bantered in the salons and worked in every conceivable place took on an importance clearly disproportionate to the quality of what was produced. Politics, and not art, was the object of many a writer's energy...