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...plays of G.B.S., talk is the moral equivalent of war. Shaw's weapons are lancing wit and blazing rhetoric. He wages a holy war against middle-class hypocrisy, capitalistic exploitation, the ser vile status of women and humbug in all forms. In Misalliance Shaw argues that the time (1909) has come to blow up the family. In his view it is a web of contractual coercion masquerading as love and care...
Almost all TV weathercasters rely primarily upon the basic data provided by the National Weather Service. A private ser vice, Accu-Weather, supplies information to more than 40 TV stations around the nation. But weathermen, the good ones at least, pa somewhat like doctors: several examining the same patient may arrive at different diagnoses. Experience and savvy count-knowing, for example, when a minor geographical shift of a pressure system might make the difference between a drenching rain and a couple of feet of snow...
Pollard delivers three sermons a week, teaches a Bible class for some 500 prominent laymen every Tuesday, and prepares both a TV and a radio program weekly. "But if ser mons are not drawn directly from the Bible," he says firmly, they're "just speechmaking." With all the competing forms of commercial art and entertainment today, Pollard figures, the continuing demand for preaching "can't be explained in any other terms than that God is using...
Milton Eisenhower, diplomat and scholar, collected his wisdom from ser vice with eight Presidents. He wrote messages for Calvin Coolidge, was a global troubleshooter for Roosevelt and worked a bit for John Kennedy, long enough so that he came to believe J.F.K. would have been a great President if he had lived...
...which can be ascribed to the specificity of Afro-American culture and which seem to bring out further the richness of Afro-American literature and thereby its enrichment of American literature. I refer to the brilliant essay writing of James Baldwin which seems to have emanated out of the ser-monesque-rapping of the Afro-American religious experience; the peculiar from of the dialect which Dunbar introduced into his works; and the particular integration of the folkloric tradition which Chestnutt used so well in his "Conjure" tales. One finds a very special use of the African elegy in the works...