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...devoured the way seals snap at fish. You could see the words settle in the crowd's bellies; 25,000 satisfied customers packing New York City's Madison Square Garden last Monday night to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, bring his dual message of self-help and hate. The message of hate predominated. How the crowd hungered for that meal. At the words of defiance they stood and roared. At the in-jokes they laughed joyfully. At the derisive words they smiled and sneered. The converted attended the preacher...
...Jewish Americans, some of whom gave their lives in the civil rights wars of the 1950s and 1960s. Many more blacks have stood side by side with Jews against bigotry than have stood against them. Yet lately some black ministers and politicians have sounded ambivalent about Farrakhan, praising the self-help program as valuable and treating the bigotry as a minor flaw. Writers such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright have warned that anti-Semitic feelings run deep in black communities, where Jewish shopkeepers and landlords were the only whites within reach and thus came to represent white oppression generally...
...kind of unfazable aplomb that only generations of inherited wealth and socially impeccable inbreeding can produce. Tom is captured and brainwashed by the local guerrillas in a test of wills that ends in a draw, with Tom reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save...
...accompanying editorial by Dr. Marcia Angell, the Journal's deputy editor, went further. It was particularly critical of the kind of self-help medical advice given in the Cousins book and others (such as one by Carl and Stephanie Simonton of the Cancer Counseling and Research Center in Dallas, who prescribe for cancer patients mental-imagery techniques that include envisioning their vigorous white blood cells overpowering weak cancer cells). But it also questioned the effectiveness of positive thinking in fighting any disease. Medical literature, wrote Angell, "contains very few scientifically sound studies of the relation, if there is one, between...
...million annual income of her organization, and one intimate says the debt is at least $700,000. What next? The San Diego congregation, which rents its meeting halls, will try to keep going minus its star. Eventually Cole-Whittaker may return to the public arena to run secularized self-help workshops. She may even reappear on the TV screen, billed this time, explains her secretary, as "a non-religious person...