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...expansionism in the Far East, who stressed the threat to revolutionary purity in the unbridled development of bureaucracy, and who believed in the inevitability of world revolution. In Rome, it is the Lenin who stood for every nation's right to self-determination, who observed that when you scratch a Russian Communist, you will find a Russian chauvinist, and who said that Western Communists would do a better job of building Communism than the Russians. In his own country, he is the Lenin who said, "Communism equals Soviet power plus electrification," who thought Russia's main duty...
...decides he no longer has any need to hide from himself through lies, or even to scratch desperately for something that he can be sure is true, because "If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides." He decides to go back to America, where he can at least fight on familiar territory. Once there, he plans to write a seven hundred page book, every single page of which will be empty, except for the phrase. "Kiss my blackass." The book, he says, will...
McLean's book is an important addition to the literature of graffiti (from the Italian graffiare, to scratch), if only because this highly perishable form of folk expression has seldom been taken seriously. It is at least as venerable as the human ambition to defy convention and authority-and both convention and authority, down the ages, have diligently worked overtime trying to scrub the walls clean. They can never, of course, successfully purge the record of these irreverent footnotes, which proliferate in both written and pictorial forms. When archaeologists unearthed Pompeii beginning in the 18th century, they found scores...
...ways to resolve this dilemma. Suburbanites often advocate improving the transportation system between urban ghetto and suburban industry, thus keeping the blacks in the cities. Some politicians-and many blacks-favor moving industry back to the inner cities. Others hope to build integrated new towns either by starting from scratch in the country, or else by redeveloping vast areas of existing cities. But probably the most practical and far-reaching solution is to open the suburbs to urban blacks...
Fortunately, work on such a device does not have to start from scratch. Much of the know-how has already been accumulated by a Chicago lab called the Olfactronics and Odor Science Center, part of the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute. Under a $300,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the smell researchers have developed a prototype "bomb sniffer" that scents incriminating odors with all the dispatch of a highly trained bloodhound. In fact, the system has so impressed the Israelis that they have adapted and improved the design for their own harassed airliners, though they have...